An efficient state space generation for the analysis of real-time systems

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 453-477

  Kang, Inhye ^a   Lee, Insup ^a   Kim, Young Si ^a  

^a Soongsil University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Formal specification; Reachability analysis; Real time systems analysis; State space minimization; Timed automata

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATA THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); STATE SPACE METHODS;

FORMAL SPECIFICATION; REACHABILITY ANALYSIS; TIMED AUTOMATA; TRANSITION BISIMULATION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0033689918     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.846302     Document Type: Article

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