Formal Verification of a Distributed Computer System

Formal Methods in System Design

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 93-125

  Merritt, M ^a   Orda, A ^b   Sachs, S R ^c  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Formal methods; Formal verification; Homomorphic reduction; Induction proofs; L automata; Modeling of distributed systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATA THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; LINEARIZATION; STATE SPACE METHODS;

FAULT TOLERANT ALGORITHMS; FORMAL METHODS; FORMAL VERIFICATION; HOMOMORPHIC REDUCTION; INDUCTION PROOFS; L AUTOMATA;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031070548     PISSN: 09259856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008667631119     Document Type: Article

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