SAMC: Semantic-aware model checking for fast discovery of deep bugs in cloud systems

Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, OSDI 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 399-414

  Leesatapornwongsa, Tanakorn ^a   Hao, Mingzhe ^a   Joshi, Pallavi ^b   Lukman, Jeffrey F ^c   Gunawi, Haryadi S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^c Surya University   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SEMANTICS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; REAL DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; SEMANTIC INFORMATION; SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE; STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNIQUES; STATE-SPACE EXPLOSION; STATE-SPACE REDUCTION; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE;

MODEL CHECKING;

EID: 85076514887     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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