{"acknowledgement":"This work was supported in part by the Austrian Science Fund NFN RiSE (Rigorous Systems Engineering) and by the ERC Advanced Grant QUAREM (Quantitative Reactve Modeling).\r\nChapter 2, 3, and 4 are joint work with Thomas A. Henzinger and Thomas Wies. Chapter 2 was published in FoSSaCS 2010 as “Forward Analysis of Depth-Bounded Processes” [112]. Chapter 3 was published in VMCAI 2012 as “Ideal Abstractions for Well-Structured Transition Systems” [114]. Chap- ter 5.1 is joint work with Kshitij Bansal, Eric Koskinen, and Thomas Wies. It was published in TACAS 2013 as “Structural Counter Abstraction” [13]. The author’s contribution in this part is mostly related to the implementation. The theory required to understand the method and its implementation is quickly recalled to make the thesis self-contained, but should not be considered as a contribution. For the details of the methods, we refer the reader to the orig- inal publication [13] and the corresponding technical report [14]. Chapter 5.2 is ongoing work with Shahram Esmaeilsabzali, Rupak Majumdar, and Thomas Wies. I also would like to thank the people who supported over the past 4 years. My advisor Thomas A. Henzinger who gave me a lot of freedom to work on projects I was interested in. My collaborators, especially Thomas Wies with whom I worked since the beginning. The members of my thesis committee, Viktor Kun- cak and Rupak Majumdar, who also agreed to advise me. Simon Aeschbacher, Pavol Cerny, Cezara Dragoi, Arjun Radhakrishna, my family, friends and col- leagues who created an enjoyable environment. 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Our abstraction captures the essence of acceleration based-algorithms while giving up enough precision to ensure convergence. We have implemented the analysis in the PICASSO tool and show that it is accurate in practice. 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