VSE: Formal methods meet industrial needs

International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 66-77

  Autexier, Serge ^a   Hutter, Dieter ^a   Langenstein, Bruno ^a   Mantel, Heiko ^a   Rock, Georg ^a   Schairer, Axel ^a   Stephan, Werner ^a   Vogt, Roland ^a   Wolpers, Andreas ^a  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automated theorem proving; Compositionality; Formal software development; Interactive theorem proving; Modular proof development; Temporal logic

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED THEOREM PROVING; COMPOSITIONALITY; FORMAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; INTERACTIVE THEOREM PROVING; PROOF DEVELOPMENT;

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; SPECIFICATIONS; TEMPORAL LOGIC; THEOREM PROVING;

AUTOMATIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84896694203     PISSN: 14332779     EISSN: 14332787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100099900022     Document Type: Article

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