Alcoa: The alloy constraint analyzer

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 730-733

  Jackson, Daniel ^a   Schechter, Ian ^a   Shlyakhter, Ilya ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOY PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; FORMAL SPECIFICATIONS; MODEL CHECKING; RELATIONAL LOGIC; SOFTWARE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE ALCOA; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE; Z PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA STRUCTURES; FORMAL LOGIC; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM DIAGNOSTICS;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0033698475     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2000.870482     Document Type: Article

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