Generating counter-examples through randomized guided search

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

Volumn 4595 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 39-57

  Rungta, Neha ^a   Mercer, Eric G ^a  

^a 3361 TMCB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; MODEL CHECKING; RANDOM PROCESSES;

EQUIVALENT HEURISTIC TIES; GUIDED SEARCH;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 38149019819     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73370-6_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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