An operational semantics for Stateflow

International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer

Volumn 9, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 447-456

  Hamon, Grégoire ^a,b   Rushby, John ^a,b  

^a MATHWORKS INC   (United States)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; MATLAB; SET THEORY; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

FORMAL ANALYSIS; STATEFLOW DESIGN;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 35349010511     PISSN: 14332779     EISSN: 14332787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10009-007-0049-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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