About this course: System Validation is the field that studies the fundamentals of system communication and information processing. It allows automated analysis based on behavioural models of a system to see if a system works correctly. We want to guarantee that the systems does exactly what it is supposed to do. The techniques put forward in system validation allow to prove the absence of errors. It allows to design embedded system behaviour that is structurally sound and as a side effect enforces you to make the behaviour simple and insightful. This means that the systems are not only behaving correctly, but are also much easier to maintain and adapt. ’Modeling Software Protocols, and other behaviour' demonstrates the power of formal methods in software modelling, communication protocols, and other examples. Reading material. J.F. Groote and M.R. Mousavi. Modeling and analysis of communicating systems. The MIT Press, 2014.

Who is this class for: This course is meant for first year Master students in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science. Note that as a consequence, quiz questions are more like exam questions where you have to construct the answer based on the principles that are taught in the web lectures, rather than to recall the literal text of the teacher.

Created by: EIT Digital

Taught by: Jan Friso Groote, Full professor
Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology

Level	Advanced
Language	English
How To Pass	Pass all graded assignments to complete the course.

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WEEK 1

Advanced modelling

We show how the behavior of simple programs and communication protocols can be modelled and analysed. Furthermore, we introduce the notion of a linear process: a simple normal form to which every behavior can be reduced. This normal form is the workhorse when it comes to the analysis of behavior.

8 videos

Video: Introduction to MOOC modelling software, protocols and other behaviour
Video: Modelling a parallel algorithm to calculate the GCD
Video: Linear process equations and linearisation
Video: Manipulating linear processes
Video: Parameterised boolean equation systems
Video: The alternating bit protocol revisited
Video: The sliding window protocol, or Tanenbaum’s bug
Video: Philips remote control standard 6, or the bounded retransmission protocol

Graded: Advanced modelling

WEEK 2

Modelling guidelines

In this lecture you see various modelling techniques that can be used to keep the state space of your models small.

5 videos

Video: Guidelines to avoid the state space explosion problem
Video: Push versus poll
Video: Restrict the use of data
Video: Avoid parallelism among components
Video: Compositional design ; specify external behaviour

Graded: Modelling guidelines

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System Validation (4): Modelling Software, Protocols, and other behaviour

System Validation (4): Modelling Software, Protocols, and other behaviour

System Validation (4): Modelling Software, Protocols, and other behaviour