Enhancing random walk state space exploration

FMICS'05 - Proceedings of the Tenth International Workshop on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 98-105

  Pelánek, Radek ^a   Hanžl, Tomáš ^a   Černá, Ivana ^a   Brim, Luboš ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Formal verification; Random walk; State space exploration

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

FORMAL VERIFICATION; PARTIAL ORDER REDUCTION; RANDOM WALK; STATE SPACE EXPLORATION;

STATE SPACE METHODS;

EID: 33749026357     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1081180.1081193     Document Type: Conference Paper

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