Symmetry and model checking

Formal Methods in System Design

Volumn 9, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 105-131

  Emerson, E Allen ^a   Sistla, A Prasad ^b  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

Author keywords

Model checking; State explosion; Symmetry; Temporal logic

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; DATA STRUCTURES; FORMAL LOGIC; GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATE SPACE METHODS;

CONCURRENT SYSTEMS; MODEL CHECKING; TEMPORAL LOGIC;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 0030215699     PISSN: 09259856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00625970     Document Type: Article

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