Proving temporal properties of Z specifications using abstraction

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

Volumn 2651, Issue , 2003, Pages 260-279

  Smith, Graeme ^a   Winter, Kirsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPECIFICATIONS;

MODEL CHECKER; STATE TRANSITION SYSTEMS; TEMPORAL PROPERTY; TEMPORAL STRUCTURES; Z SPECIFICATIONS;

MODEL CHECKING;

EID: 35248871556     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44880-2_17     Document Type: Article

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