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FM
2003
Springer
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Proving the Shalls
Incomplete, inaccurate, ambiguous, and volatile requirements have plagued the software industry since its inception. The convergence of model-based development and formal methods o...
Steven P. Miller, Alan C. Tribble, Mats Per Erik H...
FM
2003
Springer
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Improving Safety Assessment of Complex Systems: An Industrial Case Study
The complexity of embedded controllers is steadily increasing. This trend, stimulated by the continuous improvement of the computational power of hardware, demands for a correspond...
Marco Bozzano, Antonella Cavallo, Massimo Cifaldi,...
FATES
2003
Springer
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Using a Software Testing Technique to Improve Theorem Proving
Most efforts to combine formal methods and software testing go in the direction of exploiting formal methods to solve testing problems, most commonly test case generation. Here we ...
Reiner Hähnle, Angela Wallenburg
CAV
2003
Springer
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Certifying Optimality of State Estimation Programs
Abstract. The theme of this paper is certifying software for state estimation of dynamic systems, which is an important problem found in spacecraft, aircraft, geophysical, and in m...
Grigore Rosu, Ram Prasad Venkatesan, Jon Whittle, ...
CAV
2003
Springer
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Fast Mu-Calculus Model Checking when Tree-Width Is Bounded
We show that the model checking problem for µ-calculus on graphs of bounded tree-width can be solved in time linear in the size of the system. The result is presented by first sh...
Jan Obdrzálek
CAV
2003
Springer
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Interpolation and SAT-Based Model Checking
Abstract. We consider a fully SAT-based method of unbounded symbolic model checking based on computing Craig interpolants. In benchmark studies using a set of large industrial circ...
Kenneth L. McMillan
CAV
2003
Springer
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Bridging the Gap between Fair Simulation and Trace Inclusion
The paper considers the problem of checking abstraction between two finite-state fair discrete systems (FDS). In automata-theoretic terms this is trace inclusion between two nond...
Yonit Kesten, Nir Piterman, Amir Pnueli
CAV
2003
Springer
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Abstraction and BDDs Complement SAT-Based BMC in DiVer
ion and BDDs Complement SAT-based BMC in DiVer Aarti Gupta1, Malay Ganai1 , Chao Wang2, Zijiang Yang1, Pranav Ashar1 1 NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A. 2 University ...
Aarti Gupta, Malay K. Ganai, Chao Wang, Zijiang Ya...