A panacea or academic poppycock: Formal methods revisited

Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 3-7

  Heitmeyer, Constance ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODE QUALITY; CODE VERIFICATION; SOFTWARE SPECIFICATIONS;

COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

FORMAL LOGIC;

EID: 33846954340     PISSN: 15302059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HASE.2005.3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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