Proving MCAPI executions are correct using SMT

2013 28th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2013 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 26-36

  Huang, Yu ^a   Mercer, Eric ^a   McCarthy, Jay ^a  

^a 3361 TMCB   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Message Passing; Refinement; SMT

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTION; ENCODING STRATEGY; HETEROGENEOUS MULTI-CORE SYSTEMS; MULTICORE TECHNOLOGY; PROGRAM EXECUTION; REFERENCE SOLUTION; REFINEMENT; SATISFIABILITY MODULO THEORIES;

FORMAL LOGIC; MESSAGE PASSING; METAL WORKING; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE TESTING; SURFACE MOUNT TECHNOLOGY;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS);

EID: 84893583964     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASE.2013.6693063     Document Type: Conference Paper

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