Proving non-termination

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 147-158

  Gupta, Ashutosh K ^a   Henzinger, Thomas A ^b   Majumdar, Rupak ^c   Rybalchenko, Andrey ^a   Xu, Ru Gang ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR SOFTWARE SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Model checking; Non termination; Program verification; Recurrent Sets; Testing

Indexed keywords

MODEL CHECKING; SOFTWARE TESTING; TESTING;

INTEGER REPRESENTATION; LIVENESS VERIFICATIONS; NON TERMINATIONS; PROGRAM VERIFICATION; RECURRENT SETS; SAFETY VERIFICATION; TERMINATION PROOF; VERIFICATION TOOLS;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 43149120356     PISSN: 15232867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1328897.1328459     Document Type: Article

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