TCTL inevitability analysis of dense-time systems: From theory to engineering

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 510-526

  Wang, Farn ^a,b   Huang, Geng Dian ^b   Yu, Fang ^c  

^a IEEE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Greatest fixpoint; Inevitability; Model checking; non Zeno; Real time systems; TCTL

Indexed keywords

GREATEST FIXPOINTS; INEVITABILITY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; DECISION TREES; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TEMPORAL LOGIC;

REAL TIME CONTROL;

EID: 33947108848     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2006.71     Document Type: Article

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