Model Checking for Database Theoreticians

Algorithmic verification is one of the most successful applications of automated reasoning in computer science. In algorithmic verification one uses algorithmic techniques to establish the correctness of the system under verification with respect to a given property. Model checking is an algorithmic-verification technique that is based on a small number of key ideas, tying together graph theory, automata theory, and logic. In this self-contained talk I will describe how this "holy trinity" gave rise to algorithmic-verification tools, and discuss its applicability to database verification