A theory for execution-time derivation in real-time programs

Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn 346, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-27

  Lermer, Karl ^a   Fidge, Colin J ^b   Hayes, Ian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Control flow analysis; Execution time derivation and prediction; Partial correctness; Predicate transformer semantics; Real time programming

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

CONTROL-FLOW ANALYSIS; PARTIAL CORRECTNESS; PREDICATE TRANSFORMER SEMANTICS; REAL-TIME PROGRAMMING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 27744558054     PISSN: 03043975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcs.2005.08.003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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