Mechanical verification of a garbage collector

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

Volumn 1586, Issue , 1999, Pages 1258-1283

  Havelund, Klaus ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FORMAL METHODS; FORMAL VERIFICATION; REFUSE COLLECTION;

CONCURRENT SYSTEMS; FINITE STATE VERSION; GARBAGE COLLECTION ALGORITHM; GARBAGE COLLECTORS; MECHANICAL VERIFICATION; PARALLEL COMPOSITION; STATE TRANSITION SYSTEMS; VERIFICATION SYSTEMS;

MODEL CHECKING;

EID: 84957635653     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/BFb0098007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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