Model-based variable and transition orderings for efficient symbolic model checking

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

Volumn 4085 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 524-540

  Johnston, Wendy ^a   Winter, Kirsten ^a   Van Den Berg, Lionel ^a   Strooper, Paul ^a   Robinson, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Binary Decision Diagrams; Clustering; Image computation; Partitioned transition relations; Railway interlockings; Symbolic model checking

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FAILURE ANALYSIS; GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTERS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERLOCKING SIGNALS;

BINARY DECISION DIAGRAMS; CLUSTERING; IMAGE COMPUTATION; PARTITIONED TRANSITION RELATIONS; RAILWAY INTERLOCKINGS; SYMBOLIC MODEL CHECKING;

BINARY CODES;

EID: 33749378976     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11813040_35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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