Parallel state space construction for model-checking

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

Volumn 2057, Issue , 2001, Pages 217-234

  Garavel, Hubert ^a   Mateescu, Radu ^a   Smarandache, Irina ^a  

^a INRIA RHÔNE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Distributed algorithms; Labeled transition system; Lotos; Model checking; State space construction; Verification

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; SPECIFICATION LANGUAGES; STATE SPACE METHODS; VERIFICATION;

CLUSTER OF WORKSTATIONS; FINITE STATE SYSTEMS; LABELED TRANSITION SYSTEMS; NETWORK NODE; PARALLEL COMPUTATION; PARALLELIZATION TECHNIQUES; STATE EXPLOSION PROBLEMS; VERIFICATION TOOLS;

MODEL CHECKING;

EID: 84894629087     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45139-0_14     Document Type: Article

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