Hyperdocuments as automata: Verification of trace-based browsing properties by model checking

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-30

  Stotts, P David ^a,d   Furuta, Richard ^b   Cabarrus, Cyrano Ruiz ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Universidad Francisco Marroquin   (Guatemala)

^d Brooks Computer Science Building   (United States)

Author keywords

D.2.2 Software Engineering : Tools and Techniques Petri nets; D.2.4 Software Engineering : Program Verification assertion, checkers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GRAPH THEORY;

BROWSING SEMANTICS; HYPERDOCUMENTS; HYPERMEDIA; MODEL CHECKING;

AUTOMATA THEORY;

EID: 0031599361     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/267954.267955     Document Type: Article

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