On the need for practical formal methods

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

Volumn 1486, Issue , 1998, Pages 18-26

  Heitmeyer, Constance ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST REDUCTION; FAULT TOLERANCE; FORMAL LOGIC; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; THEOREM PROVING;

COMMUNITY IS; HIGHER ORDER LOGIC; MATHEMATICAL SOPHISTICATION; PUSH BUTTONS; SOFTWARE COST REDUCTIONS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SOFTWARE PRACTITIONERS; STANDARD DEVELOPMENT;

FORMAL METHODS;

EID: 84958636921     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/BFb0055332     Document Type: Conference Paper

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