High-level Petri net model checking with AlPiNA

Fundamenta Informaticae

Volumn 113, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 229-264

  Hostettler, Steve ^a   Marechal, Alexis ^a   Linard, Alban ^a   Risoldi, Matteo ^a   Buchs, Didier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Algebraic Petri Nets; Computer Tools for Nets; Higher level Nets Models; Model Checking; State Space Generation; System design and verification

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC PETRI NETS; COMPUTER TOOLS FOR NETS; DATA TYPE; HARDWARE DOMAIN; HIGH-LEVEL PETRI NETS; LARGE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; OPTIMISATIONS; PETRI NET MODELS; PLUG-INS; SOFTWARE MODEL; STATE-SPACE EXPLOSION; STATE-SPACE GENERATION; SYMBOLIC MODEL CHECKERS; SYSTEM DESIGN AND VERIFICATION; USER-FRIENDLY MODELS;

ALGEBRA; COMPUTER HARDWARE; PETRI NETS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

MODEL CHECKING;

EID: 84858041497     PISSN: 01692968     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/FI-2011-608     Document Type: Conference Paper

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