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Concise Guide to Software Verification

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Over the last few years, our society has changed substantially and has become rapidly digitalised. For almost every aspect of our daily lives, we now depend on software.

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Acknowledgements

Many thanks go to Stefan Blom, Ronald Burgman, Roeland Kegel, Wojciech Mostowski, Sophie Lathouwers, and Wolfgang Ahrendt who carefully read through the lecture notes on which this book is based, and provided useful feedback, references, and graphical representations of Kripke structures. Also many thanks to Naum Tomov, who helped to check that all examples provided in the book are accepted by the current version of the tools, and to Jacco Brandt who spotted some mistakes in the examples.

The work on this book has been financially supported by NWO grant 639.023.710 for the Mercedes project and by NWO TTW grant 17249 for the ChEOPS project.

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Huisman, M., Wijs, A. (2023). Introduction. In: Concise Guide to Software Verification. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30167-4_1

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