On the use of weak automata for deciding linear arithmetic with integer and real variables

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

Volumn 2083 LNAI, Issue , 2001, Pages 611-625

  Boigelot, Bernard ^a   Jodogne, Sébastien ^a   Wolper, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS; ALGORITHMS; FINITE AUTOMATA; SEMANTICS;

INFINITE WORD; LINEAR ARITHMETIC; REAL AND INTEGER VARIABLES; SIMPLER ALGORITHMS;

FINITE AUTOMATA; COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 84867770613     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45744-5_50     Document Type: Conference Paper

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