Dynamic partial-order reduction for model checking software

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

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 110-121

  Flanagan, Cormac ^a   Godefrold, Patrice ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Partial order reduction; Software model checking

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; STATE SPACE METHODS;

PARTIAL-ORDER ALGORITHMS; PARTIAL-ORDER REDUCTION; SOFTWARE MODEL CHECKING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 29144439944     PISSN: 07308566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1040305.1040315     Document Type: Conference Paper

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