Heuristic search + local model checking in selective mu-calculus

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 510-523

  Santone, Antonella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

AND OR graph; Heuristic search; Local model checking; Model checking; State explosion; Temporal logic

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; FUNCTIONS; HEURISTIC METHODS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; STATE SPACE METHODS; THEOREM PROVING;

FINITE-STATE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; GLOBAL STATE GRAPH; HEURISTIC SEARCH; LOCAL MODEL CHECKING; SELECTIVE MU-CALCULUS; STATE EXPLOSION PROBLEM;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0041347575     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2003.1205179     Document Type: Article

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