A work-efficient distributed algorithm for reachability analysis

Formal Methods in System Design

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 157-175

  Grumberg, Orna ^a   Heyman, Tamir ^a   Schuster, Assaf ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Distributed BDDs; Distributed reachability; Symbolic model checking

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

DISTRIBUTED BDDS; DISTRIBUTED REACHABILITY; REACHABILITY ANALYSIS; SYMBOLIC MODEL CHECKING;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 33748306096     PISSN: 09259856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10703-006-0011-4     Document Type: Article

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