Another Look at LTL Model Checking

Formal Methods in System Design

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 47-71

  Clarke, Edmund M ^a   Grumberg, Orna ^b   Hamaguchi, Kiyoharu ^c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automatic verification; Binary decision diagrams; Model checking; Temporal logic

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DECISION THEORY; FORMAL LOGIC;

AUTOMATIC VERIFICATION; BINARY DECISION DIAGRAMS; LINEAR TEMPORAL LOGIC; MODEL CHECKING;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0031071522     PISSN: 09259856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008615614281     Document Type: Article

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