Composition and refinement of discrete real-time systems

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-48

  Ostroff, Jonathan S ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Design; Model checking; Modules; Refinement; State explosion; Temporal logic; Timed logic; Verification

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842691752     PISSN: 1049331X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/295558.295560     Document Type: Article

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