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An Update on STeP: Deductive-Algorithmic Verification of Reactive Systems

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The Stanford Temporal Prover, STeP, is a tool for the computer-aided formal verification of reactive systems, including real-time and hybrid systems, based on their temporal specification. STeP integrates methods for deductive and algorithmic verification, including model checking, theorem proving, automatic invariant generation, abstraction and modular reasoning. We describe the most recent version of STeP, Version 2.0.

This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grants CCR-95-27927 and CCR-98-04100, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under NASA grant NAG2-892, ARO under grants DAAH04-95-1-0317, DAAH04-961-0122 and DAAG55-98-1-0471, ARO under MURI grant DAAH04-96-1-0341, and by Army contract DABT63-96-C-0096 (DARPA).

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    Zohar Manna, Nikolaj S. Bjørner, Anca Browne, Michael Colón, Bernd Finkbeiner, Mark Pichora, Henny B. Sipma & Tomás E. Uribe

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Manna, Z. et al. (1999). An Update on STeP: Deductive-Algorithmic Verification of Reactive Systems. In: Berghammer, R., Lakhnech, Y. (eds) Tool Support for System Specification, Development and Verification. Advances in Computing Science. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6355-9_13

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