Issues in implementing a model checker for Z

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

Volumn 4260 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 678-696

  Derrick, John ^a   North, Siobhán ^a   Simons, Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Model checking; SAL; Z

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMANTICS;

LANGUAGE DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL TOOLKIT; MODEL CHECKING TOOLS;

FORMAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 33845235039     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11901433_37     Document Type: Article

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