— This paper discusses reduction of the number of product terms in representation of totally symmetric Boolean functions by Sum of Products (SOP) and Fixed Polarity ReedMuller (F...
Model checking is shown to be an effective tool in validating the behavior of a fault tolerant embedded spacecraft controller. The case study presented here at by judiciously abst...
Francis Schneider, Steve M. Easterbrook, John R. C...
A proof system is presented for the verification and derivation of object oriented programs with as main features strong typing, dynamic binding, and inheritance. The proof system...
The problem of converting deterministic finite automata into (short) regular expressions is considered. It is known that the required expression size is 2(n) in the worst case for ...
In industrial practice, information on the software field quality of a product is available too late in the software lifecycle to guide affordable corrective action. An important ...
Nachiappan Nagappan, Laurie Williams, Mladen A. Vo...