Symbolic verification of communication protocols with infinite state spaces using QDDs -- A conjunctively decomposed boolean representation for symbolic model checking -- Symbolic model checking using algebraic geometry -- A partition refinement algorithm for the ?-calculus -- Polynomial time algorithms for testing probabilistic bisimulation and simulation -- Pushdown processes: Games and model checking -- Module checking -- Automatic verification of parameterized synchronous systems -- HORNSAT, model checking, verification and games -- Verifying the SRT division algorithm using theorem proving techniques -- Modular verification of SRT division -- Mechanically verifying a family of multiplier circuits -- Verifying systems with replicated components in mur? -- Verification of arithmetic circuits by comparing two similar circuits -- Automated deduction and formal methods -- A platform for combining deductive with algorithmic verification -- Verifying invariants using theorem proving -- Deductive model checking -- Automated verification by induction with associative-commutative operators -- Analysis of timed systems based on time-abstracting bisimulations -- Verification of an Audio Protocol with bus collision using Uppaal -- Selective quantitative analysis and interval model checking: Verifying different facets of a system -- Verifying continuous time Markov chains -- Verifying safety properties of differential equations -- Temporal verification by diagram transformations -- Protocol verification by aggregation of distributed transactions -- Atomicity refinement and trace reduction theorems -- Powerful techniques for the automatic generation of invariants -- Saving space by fully exploiting invisible transitions -- Using on-the-fly verification techniques for the generation of test suites -- Automatic translation of natural language system specifications into temporal logic -- Verification of fair transition systems -- The state of Spin -- The Mur ? verification system -- The NCSU Concurrency Workbench -- The Concurrency Factory: A development environment for concurrent systems -- XVERSA: An integrated graphical and textual toolset for the specification and analysis of resource-bound real-time systems -- EVP: Integration of FDTs for the analysis and verification of communication protocols -- PVS: Combining specification, proof checking, and model checking -- STeP: Deductive-algorithmic verification of reactive and real-time systems -- Symbolic model checking -- COSPAN -- VIS: A system for verification and synthesis -- MDG tools for the verification of RTL designs -- CADP a protocol validation and verification toolbox -- The FC2TOOLS set -- The Real-Time Graphical Interval Logic toolset -- The METAFrame'95 environment -- Verification Support Environment -- Marrella: A tool for simulation and verification -- Verifying the safety of a practical concurrent garbage collector -- Verification by behaviour abstraction.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV '96, held in New Brunswick, NJ, USA, in July/August 1996 as part of the FLoC '96 federated conference. The volume presents 32 revised full research contributions selected from a total of 93 submissions; also included are 20 carefully selected descriptions of tools and case studies. The set of papers reports the state-of-the-art of the theory and practice of computer assisted formal analysis methods for software and hardware systems; a certain emphasis is placed on verification tools and the algorithms and techniques that are needed for their implementation.