Beatrice Berard (EDT)/ Michel Bidoit (EDT)/ Alain Finkel (EDT)/ Francois Laroussinie (EDT)/ Antoine Petit (EDT)/ Laure Petrucci (EDT)/ Philippe Schnoebelen (EDT)/ Pierre McKenzie (EDT)
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Model checking is a powerful approach for the formal verification of software. It automatically provides complete proofs of correctness, or explains, via counter-examples, why a system is not correct.
