Nested emptiness search for generalized büchi automata

Fundamenta Informaticae

Volumn 70, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 127-154

  Tauriainen, Heikki ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Model checking; Nested depth first search; Uchi automata

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; AUTOMATA THEORY;

MODEL CHECKING; NESTED DEPTH-FIRST SEARCH; UCHI AUTOMATA;

AUTOMATA THEORY; MODEL CHECKING;

ACCEPTANCE CONDITIONS; BUCHI AUTOMATA; CASE MEMORY; DEPTH FIRST; EMPTINESS CHECKING; EXPLICIT STATE; MEMORY REQUIREMENTS; MODELS CHECKING; NESTED DEPTH-FIRST SEARCH; WORD AUTOMATA;

EID: 33244486314     PISSN: 01692968     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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