Scalable error detection using boolean satisfiability

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

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 352-363

  Xie, Yichen ^a   Aiken, Alex ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Boolean satisfiability; Error detection; Program analysis

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR DETECTION;

BOOLEAN SATIFIABILITY; PROGRAM ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 29144493506     PISSN: 07308566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1040305.1040334     Document Type: Conference Paper

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