Automatic symbolic verification of embedded systems

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 181-201

  Alur, Rajeev ^a   Henzinger, Thomas A ^a   Ho, Pei Hsin ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Model checking; Real time and hybrid systems; Specification and verification; Symbolic analysis; Temporal logic

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747356808     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.489079     Document Type: Article

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