Temporal logic has developed over the last 30 years into a powerful formal setting for the specification and verification of state-based systems. Based on university lectures given by the authors, this book is a comprehensive, concise, uniform, up-to-date presentation of the theory and applications of linear and branching time temporal logic; TLA (Temporal Logic of Actions); automata theoretical connections; model checking; and related theories.

All theoretical details and numerous application examples are elaborated carefully and with full formal rigor, and the book will serve as a basic source and reference for lecturers, graduate students and researchers.

Fred Kröger: Since 1971 working in Computer Science 1980-1986 Professor for Computer Science at Technical University of Munich Since 1986 Professor for Computer Science at University of Munich 1987 World-wide first textbook on Temporal Logic ("Temporal Logic of Programs", Springer) Stephan Merz: 1992 Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Munich 1995-2002 Assistant Professor for Computer Science, University of Munich since 2002 Senior Researcher, INRIA Lorraine, Nancy

Basic Concepts and Notions of Logics.- Basic Propositional Linear Temporal Logic.- Extensions of LTL.- Expressiveness of Propositional Linear Temporal Logics.- First-Order Linear Temporal Logic.- State Systems.- Verification of State Systems.- Verification of Concurrent Programs.- Structured Specification.- Other Temporal Logics.- System Verification by Model Checking.