Explaining counterexamples using causality

Formal Methods in System Design

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 20-40

  Beer, Ilan ^a   Ben David, Shoham ^b   Chockler, Hana ^a   Orni, Avigail ^a   Trefler, Richard ^c  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Causality; Explanation of counterexamples; Formal verification; Hardware verification

Indexed keywords

CAUSALITY; EXPLANATION OF COUNTEREXAMPLES; EXTERNAL LAYERS; FORMAL VERIFICATIONS; HARDWARE VERIFICATION; INTEGRAL PART; LIGHT WEIGHT; MODEL CHECKER; MODEL CHECKING TOOLS; NON-TRIVIAL TASKS; POLYNOMIAL-TIME ALGORITHMS; RULE BASE;

ALGORITHMS; MODEL CHECKING; SPECIFICATIONS;

TRACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84857193112     PISSN: 09259856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10703-011-0132-2     Document Type: Article

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