An approach to combining B and alloy

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2272, Issue , 2002, Pages 140-161

  Mikhailov, Leonid ^a   Butler, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alloy; B method

Indexed keywords

ALLOYING; FORMAL SPECIFICATION; SOFTWARE DESIGN; THEOREM PROVING;

ABSTRACT SPECIFICATIONS; B METHOD; MODEL CHECKER; SOFTWARE VERIFICATION;

MODEL CHECKING;

EID: 23044530355     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45648-1_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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