Ten years of historical development quot;bootstrappingquot; VDMTools®

Journal of Universal Computer Science

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 692-709

  Larsen, Peter Gorm ^a  

^a IFAD A/S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Formal methods; Software engineering; Tool support; VDM

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947260159     PISSN: 0958695X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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