relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/284/ title: TAPAs: A Tool for the Analysis of Process Algebras creator: Calzolai, Francesco creator: De Nicola, Rocco creator: Loreti, Michele creator: Tiezzi, Francesco subject: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science description: Process algebras are formalisms for modelling concurrent systems that permit mathematical reasoning with respect to a set of desired properties. TAPAs is a tool that can be used to support the use of process algebras to specify and analyze concurrent systems. It does not aim at guaranteeing high performances, but has been developed as a support to teaching. Systems are described as process algebras terms that are then mapped to labelled transition systems (LTSs). Properties are verified either by checking equivalence of concrete and abstract systems descriptions, or by model checking temporal formulae over the obtained LTS. A key feature of TAPAs, that makes it particularly suitable for teaching, is that it maintains a consistent double representation of each system both as a term and as a graph. Another useful didactical feature is the exhibition of counterexamples in case equivalences are not verified or the proposed formulae are not satisfied. publisher: Springer contributor: Jensen, Kurt contributor: M. P. van der Aalst, Wil contributor: Billington, Jonathan date: 2008 type: Book Section type: PeerReviewed format: application/pdf language: en identifier: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/284/1/dNCLT_topnoc.pdf identifier: Calzolai, Francesco and De Nicola, Rocco and Loreti, Michele and Tiezzi, Francesco TAPAs: A Tool for the Analysis of Process Algebras. In: Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1 . Springer, pp. 54-70. ISBN 978-3-540-89286-1 (2008) relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89287-8_4 relation: 10.1007/978-3-540-89287-8_4