The design of a multicore extension of the SPIN model checker

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 659-674

  Holzmann, Gerald J ^a   Bošnački, Dragan ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Distributed programming; Logics and meanings of programs; Model checking; Models of computation; Software program verification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

MULTI-CORE ALGORITHM; PARTIAL ORDER REDUCTION; SHARED-MEMORY SYSTEM;

MODEL CHECKING;

EID: 34648840583     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2007.70724     Document Type: Article

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