System Validation: Model Process Behavior

System Validation is the field that studies the fundamentals of system communication and information processing. It is the next logical step in computer science and improving software development in general. It enables automated analysis based on behavioral models of a system to determine if it functions correctly. We want to guarantee that the system does exactly what it is supposed to do. The techniques put forward in system validation allow for proving the absence of errors. It allows for the design embedded system behaviour that is structurally sound and, as a side effect, forces 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. ’Model process behaviour' is the follow-up MOOC to 'Automata and behavioural equivalences'. This MOOC shows you how to model process behaviour, in particular protocols and distributed algorithms, dive deeper into the properties of system behaviour, and keep things simple to avoid a state space explosion. Reading material. J.F. Groote and M.R. Mousavi. Modeling and analysis of communicating systems. The MIT Press, 2014.