Efficient software model checking of soundness of type systems

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 493-504

  Roberson, Michael ^a   Harries, Melanie ^a   Darga, Paul T ^a   Boyapati, Chandrasekhar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Software model checking; Type soundness

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SEMANTICS;

BOOLEAN EXPRESSIONS; IMPERATIVE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; OPERATIONAL SEMANTICS; PRESERVATION THEOREMS; SEARCH SPACE PRUNING; SOFTWARE MODEL CHECKERS; SOFTWARE MODEL CHECKING; TYPE SOUNDNESS;

MODEL CHECKING;

EID: 67650093468     PISSN: 15232867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1449955.1449803     Document Type: Article

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