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@conference{ ClarkeEmerson81temporal_logic,
   author = "E. M. Clarke and  E. A. Emerson",
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@article{ ClarkeEmersonSistla86verif_temporal,
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@conference{ clarke00cegar,
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@conference{ QuielleSifakis82spec_verif,
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@conference{ BCCFZ04SMC_with_SAT,
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@conference{ ucolorado04circus,
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@conference{ emma03ctl_ambigous,
   author = "C. Roux and  E. Encrenaz ",
   title = "{CTL} may be ambigous when model-checking {Moore Machines} ",
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@conference{ XieBrowne03composition_soft,
   author = "F. Xie and J.C. Browne ",
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}


@conference{ LiSunXieSong08compAbsRef,
   author = "J. Li and X. Sun and F. Xie and X. Song",
   title = "{Component-Based Abstraction Refinement} ",
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   address = "China",
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}



@conference{ PMT02compositional_MC,
   author = "H. Peng and Y. Mokhtari and S. Tahar ",
   title = "{Environment Synthesis for Compositional Model Checking} ",
   booktitle = "ICCD’02: 20th Int. Conference on Computer Design",
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   address = "Freiburg, Germany",
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   year = 2002
}


@conference{ SNBE06property_based,
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   title = "{On Consistency and Completeness of Property-Sets: Exploiting the Property-Based Design Process} ",
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@conference{ CiardoLS00mdd_async,
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   year = 2000
}

@conference{ CTM05hdd,
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   title = "{Hierarchical Decision Diagrams to Exploit Model Structure} ",
   booktitle = "FORTE: 25th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems",
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   address = "Taipei, Taiwan",
   publisher = "LNCS, Springer",
   year = 2005
}


@conference{ HQR98assume_guarantee,
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   title = "{You Assume, We Guarantee: Methodology and Case Studies} ",
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   year = 1998
}


@conference{ GrumbergLong91assume_guarantee,
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@conference{ GrafSaidi97abstract_construct,
   author = "S. Graf and H. Saïdi",
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   volume = 1254,
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   year = 1997
}



@conference{ PardoHachtel97autoAbsMC,
   author = "S. Pardo and G. Hachtel",
   title = "{Automatic Abstraction Technique for Propositional mu-Calculus Model Checking} ",
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   year = 1997
}


@conference{ PardoHachtel98incremCTLMC,
   author = "  S. Pardo and G. Hachtel",
   title = "{Incremental CTL Model Checking Using BDD Subsetting} ",
   booktitle = "DAC ’98: 35th Design Automation Conference ",
   pages = {457-462},
   year = 1998
}


@conference{ Burch_al91smc_part_transition,
   author = " J. R. Burch and E. M. Clarke and D. E. Long",
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   year = 1991
}


@conference{ Burch_al93smc_circuit_verif,
   author = "J. R. Burch and E. M. Clarke and D. E. Long and K. L. Mcmillan and D.L. Dilli",
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@conference{ Kroening_al07vcegar,
   author = " H. Jain and D. Kroening and N. Sharygina and E. Clarke",
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}


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    TITLE = {An Abstraction Refinement Approach Combining Precise and Approximated Techniques},
    JOURNAL = {International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer},
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    YEAR = {2012}
}


@conference{ microsoft04SLAM,
   author = "T. Ball and B. Cook and V. Levin and S. K. Rajamani",
   title = "{SLAM and Static Driver Verifier: Technology Transfer of Formal Methods inside Microsoft} ",
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   pages = {1-20},
   publisher = "Springer",
   year = 2004
}


@conference{ berkeley07BLAST,
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   title = "{The Software Model Checker Blast: Applications to software engineering} ",
   booktitle = "Int. Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer",
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   year = 2007
}


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  TITLE     = {Strengthening Properties using Abstraction Refinement},
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  PUBLISHER = {ACM},
  PAGES     = {1692-1697},
  YEAR      = {2009}
}


@conference{ Kunz_al11ipc_abs,
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   title = "{Formal Hardware/Software Co-Verification by Interval Property Checking with Abstraction}",
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   address = "San Diego, USA",
   year = 2011
}


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