Parallel partial order reduction with topological sort proviso

Proceedings - Software Engineering and Formal Methods, SEFM 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 222-231

  Barnat, Jiří ^a   Brim, Luboš ^a   Ročkai, Petr ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

DIVINE; LTL model checking; Parallel distributed memory processing; Partial order reduction

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FORMAL METHODS; GRAPH THEORY; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; STATE SPACE METHODS;

COMPETITIVE REDUCTION; DEPTH FIRST SEARCH STRATEGIES; DISTRIBUTED MEMORY; DIVINE; EXPLICIT-STATE MODEL CHECKING; LTL MODEL-CHECKING; PARTIAL ORDER REDUCTIONS; STATE-SPACE GENERATION;

MODEL CHECKING;

EID: 78650433763     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SEFM.2010.35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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