Detection of global predicates: Techniques and their limitations

Distributed Computing

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 191-201

  Chase, Craig M ^a,b,c,d,e   Garg, Vijay K ^a,f,g,h  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Cornell University ^*

^e TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

^f INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed debugging; Predicate detection; Unstable predicates

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ERROR DETECTION; PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

DISTRIBUTED DEBUGGING; PREDICATE DETECTION;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032313758     PISSN: 01782770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004460050049     Document Type: Article

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