Automatic support for verification of secure transactions in distributed environment using symbolic model checking

Electronic commerce needs the aid of software tools to check the validity of business processes in order to fully automate the exchange of information through the network. Symbolic model checking has been used to formally verify specifications of secure transactions in a business-to-business system. The fundamental principles behind symbolic model checking are presented, along with techniques used to model mutual exclusion of processes and atomic transactions. The computational resources required to check the example process are presented, and faults detected in this process through symbolic verification are documented.