Formally verified on-line diagnosis

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 684-721

  Walter, Chris J ^a   Lincoln, Patrick ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b WW Technology Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault diagnosis; Fault handling; Formal methods; On line

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TESTING;

FAULT DIAGNOSIS; FAULT HANDLING; FORMAL METHODS; ON LINE DIAGNOSIS;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031274594     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.637385     Document Type: Article

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