Validation of formal specifications
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چکیده
TLA (the Temporal Logic of Actions) is a linear temporal logic for specifying and reasoning about reactive systems. The purpose of this paper is to develop an animator and a model checker, both based on a subset of TLA, and illustrates how we can combine these tools to validate TLA specifications.
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