Synthesis of Reactive(1) designs

Journal of Computer and System Sciences

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 911-938

  Bloem, Roderick ^a   Jobstmann, Barbara ^b   Piterman, Nir ^c   Pnueli, Amir ^d   Sa'Ar, Yaniv ^d  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b VERIMAG   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Game theory; Property synthesis; Realizability

Indexed keywords

GAME THEORY;

ATOMIC PROPOSITIONS; BOOLEAN COMBINATIONS; HARDWARE SPECIFICATIONS; LINEAR TIME SPECIFICATION; REALIZABILITY; SYMBOLIC ALGORITHMS; SYNTHESIS ALGORITHMS; WINNING CONDITIONS;

FORMAL SPECIFICATION;

EID: 84857794041     PISSN: 00220000     EISSN: 10902724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcss.2011.08.007     Document Type: Article

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