Accelerating Bounded Model Checking of Safety Properties

Formal Methods in System Design

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 5-24

  Strichman, Ofer ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bounded Model Checking; SAT

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; DECISION MAKING; HEURISTIC METHODS; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCT DESIGN; SPACE RESEARCH;

BOUNDED MODEL CHECKING (BMC); SPACE EXPLOSION;

SAFETY FACTOR;

EID: 0942299121     PISSN: 09259856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:FORM.0000004785.67232.f8     Document Type: Article

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