Combining symmetry reduction and under-approximation for symbolic model checking

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2404, Issue , 2002, Pages 93-106

  Barner, Sharon ^a,b   Grumberg, Orna ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b IBM HAIFA RESEARCH LAB   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS;

LIVENESS PROPERTIES; ON THE FLIES; RULE BASE; SPACE AND TIME; SYMBOLIC MODEL CHECKING; SYMMETRY REDUCTION; TEMPORAL SAFETY PROPERTIES; UNDER-APPROXIMATION;

MODEL CHECKING;

EID: 33646404532     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45657-0_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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