Exact and approximate strategies for symmetry reduction in 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 541-556

  Donaldson, Alastair F ^a   Miller, Alice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational group theory; GAP; Model checking; Promela SPIN; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COMPUTATIONAL GROUP THEORY; GAP; MODEL CHECKING; PROMELA/SPIN; SYMMETRY;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 33749391918     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11813040_36     Document Type: Conference Paper

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