Balancing insight and effort: The industrial uptake of formal methods

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

Volumn 4700 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 237-254

  Fitzgerald, John ^a   Larsen, Peter Gorm ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; USER INTERFACES;

COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEMS; NUMEROUS FORMALISMS; RIGOROUS ANALYSIS;

FORMAL METHODS;

EID: 38349029318     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75221-9_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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