Predicate abstraction of programs with non-linear computation

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

Volumn 4218 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 352-368

  Xia, Songtao ^a   Di Vito, Ben ^a   Munoz, Cesar ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AEROSPACE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; AUTOMATA THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

NON LINEAR COMPUTATION; PREDICATE ABSTRACTION PROCESS; TRANSCENDENTAL FUNCTIONS; VERIFICATION OF INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH APPLICATIONS (VISA);

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 33845192756     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11901914_27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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