The essential idea of model checking is that, with an exhaustive exploring of all reachable states and transitions of a modeled system, system properties (expressed as a formal specification) are examined whether the properties are satisfied or not.
The fiasco of the Copenhagen climate summit is just one illustration of how far the world is from being able to bring about the desperately needed transition to a system of sustainable and secure provision of energy services.
Berg and Scheffer stated back in 2011 [ 28]: "These proposals are not meant to be permanent, but form part of a transition to a system that will ultimately allow for meaningful translation of scientific understanding to the classification of the epilepsies for clinical and other purposes".
Even the reforming Thein Sein, in a speech on March 1st marking the first anniversary of the transition to civilian rule, declared: "Our country is in transition to a system of democracy with the constitution as the core".This was hardly a surprise from the former general.
Rather, they said, they would use any additional surplus to help reduce the national debt or to help pay for a transition to a system of personal investment accounts within Social Security.
We need a sequenced approach which ensures that appropriate measures are in place to protect vulnerable countries from an overly rapid transition to a system of liberalised trade.
Still, such confusion could turn out to be the cost of a rocky transition to a system centered on two major parties alternating in power that would increase competition over policies and lessen the likelihood of corruption.
The diagram in Fig. 1a illustrates the possible states and state-transitions of a system with n=3.
The transition studies propounded three heuristic levels in a system, namely, socio-technical landscape, regime, and niche, and a transition of a system can only be fulfilled through the interactions among these three levels.
It shows us, for example, that we need not necessarily find a bifurcation associated with every observed critical transition of a system.
In the treatment of injuria the Twelve Tables, the earliest codification of Roman law (451 450 bc), showed the law in a state of transition from a system of private vengeance to one in which the state insisted that the person wronged must accept compensation instead of taking vengeance and fixed its amount.
