Generalized discrete timed automata: Decidable approximations for safety verification

Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn 296, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 59-74

  Dang, Zhe ^a   Ibarra, Oscar H ^b   Kemmerer, Richard A ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Santa Barbara   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER DEBUGGING; PROBLEM SOLVING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

SAFETY VERIFICATION;

AUTOMATA THEORY;

EID: 0037265185     PISSN: 03043975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3975(02)00432-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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