Proof-guided underapproximation-widening for multi-process systems

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

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 122-131

  Grumberg, Orna ^a   Strichman, Ofer ^a   Lerda, Flavio ^b   Theobald, Michael ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Bounded model checking; SAT proofs; Software Verification; Underapproximation Widening

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

ABSTRACTION; BOUNDED MODEL CHECKING (BMC); SOFTWARE VERIFICATION;

MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 26944488077     PISSN: 07308566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1040305.1040316     Document Type: Conference Paper

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