List of model checking tools
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This article lists model checking tools and gives an overview of the functionality of each.
Overview of some model checking tools
The following table includes model checkers that have
a web site from which it can be downloaded,
a declared license,
a description published in archived literature, and
a Wikipedia article describing it.
In the below table, the following abbreviations are used:
Equivalences:
SB: Strong Bisimulation
WB: Weak Bisimulation
BB: Branching Bisimulation
STE: Strong Trace Equivalence
WTE: Weak Trace Equivalence
me: May Equivalence
ME: Must Equivalence
OE: Observational Equivalence
SE: Safety Equivalence
t*E: tau*.a Equivalence
Software license:
FUSC: Free Under Specific Condition (e.g., free for academics)
Modelling languages
CCSP: A process calculus obtained from CCS by incorporating some operators of CSP. It is defined by Olderog and by van Glabbeek/Vaandrager.
CSP: Communicating sequential processes; formal language for describing patterns of interaction in concurrent systems. FDR2 is a refinement checking tool for CSP, comparing two models for compatibility.
DVE input language: a system is described as Network of Extended Finite State Machines communicating via shared variables and unbuffered channels. Does not contain support for buffered channels and for checking the type of message to be received without performing the receive proper.
FC2: (Common Format V2) Machine-level ASCII representation for synchronized (hierarchical) networks of automata. Defined by the Esprit Basic Research Action CONCUR, 1992. Used as an input and exchange format by a number of verification tools, mainly in the area of process algebras.
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