Spin-to-Grape: A tool for analysing symmetry in Promela Models

Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-23

  Donaldson, Alastair ^a   Miller, Alice ^a   Calder, Muffy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Concurrency; Distributed systems; Formal modelling and verification; Gap Grape; Nauty; Promela Spin; Reactive systems; Symmetry reduction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CONCURRENCY; FORMAL MODELING AND VERIFICATION; GAP/GRAPE; NAUTY; PROMELA/SPIN; SYMMETRY REDUCTIONS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 27644472794     PISSN: 15710661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.entcs.2005.09.007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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