Dual-processor parallelisation of symbolic probabilistic model checking

Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society's Annual International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems, MASCOTS

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 123-130

  Kwiatkowska, Marta ^a   Parker, David ^a   Zhang, Yi ^a   Mehmood, Rashid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS TIME MARKOV CHAIN (CTMC); DISCRETE-TIME MARKOV CHAINS (DTMC); DUAL PROCESSOR PARALLELIZATION; MODEL CHECKING;

ALGORITHMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DATA STRUCTURES; GRAPH THEORY; MARKOV PROCESSES; PROBABILITY;

PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

EID: 16244412627     PISSN: 15267539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MASCOT.2004.1348189     Document Type: Conference Paper

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