A proof obligation generator for VDM-SL

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

Volumn 1313, Issue , 1997, Pages 338-357

  Aichernig, Bernhard K ^a   Larsen, Peter Gorm ^b  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b Institute of Applied Computer Science (IFAD)   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPECIFICATIONS;

ERROR MESSAGES; PROOF OBLIGATIONS; STATIC TYPE CHECKING; TYPE CHECKER; UNDECIDABILITY; UNION TYPES;

FORMAL METHODS;

EID: 77956786639     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-63533-5_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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