SMC: A symmetry-based model checker for verification of safety and liveness properties

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 133-166

  Sistla, A Prasad ^a,c   Gyuris, Viktor ^a   Emerson, E Allen ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

^d University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

D.2.4 Software Engineering : Software Program Verification Model checking; Formal methods; F.3.1 Logics and Meanings of Programs : Specifying and Verifying and Reasoning about Programs Mechanical verification

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039332712     PISSN: 1049331X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/350887.350891     Document Type: Article

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