Verification of medical guidelines by model checking - A case study

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

Volumn 3925 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 219-233

  Bäumler, Simon ^a   Balser, Michael ^a   Dunets, Andriy ^a   Reif, Wolfgang ^a   Schmitt, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Asbru; Formal methods; Medical guidelines; Model checking; Verification

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATIENT MONITORING; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

ABSTRACTION; FORMAL METHODS; MEDICAL GUIDELINES; MODEL CHECKING; VERIFICATION;

HEALTH CARE;

EID: 33745772612     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11691617_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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