Abstractions from proofs

Conference Record of the Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages

Volumn 31, Issue , 2004, Pages 232-244

  Henzinger, Thomas A ^a   Jhala, Ranjit ^a   Majumdar, Rupak ^a   McMillan, Kenneth L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Counterexample analysis; Predicate abstraction; Software model checking

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; THEOREM PROVING;

CONTROL LOCATIONS; COUNTEREXAMPLE ANALYSIS; PREDICATE ABSTRACTION; SOFTWARE MODEL CHECKING;

ABSTRACTING;

EID: 2442623463     PISSN: 07308566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/964001.964021     Document Type: Conference Paper

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