Automatic symmetry detection for model checking using computational group theory

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3582, Issue , 2005, Pages 481-496

  Donaldson, A F ^a   Miller, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communicating processes; Concurrency; Distributed systems; Formal modelling; GAP; Model checking; Promela SPIN; Symmetry reduction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THEOREM PROVING;

COMMUNICATIONG PROCESSES; CONCURRENCY; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; FORMAL MODELING; GAP; MODEL CHECKING; PROMELA/SPIN; SYMMETRY REDUCTION;

LOGIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 26444571295     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/11526841_32     Document Type: Conference Paper

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