Automatic refinement checking for B

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

Volumn 3785 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 345-359

  Leuschel, Michael ^a,b   Butler, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animation; B Method; Constraints; Logic Programming; Model Checking; Refinement Checking; Tool Support

Indexed keywords

B-METHOD; CONSTRAINTS; MODEL CHECKING; REFINEMENT CHECKING; TOOL SUPPORT;

ANIMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; SEMANTICS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 33646762492     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11576280_24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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