@article{eprints171,
          number = {3},
          author = {Stefan Edelkamp and Alberto Lluch-Lafuente and Stefan Leue},
       publisher = {Elsevier},
          volume = {55},
         journal = {Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science},
            year = {2001},
           title = {Trail-directed model checking},
        abstract = {HSF-SPIN is a Promela model checker based on heuristic search strategies. It utilizes heuristic estimates in order to direct the search for finding software bugs in concurrent systems. As a consequence, HSF-SPIN is able to find shorter trails than blind depth-first search.
This paper contributes an extension to the paradigm of directed model checking to shorten already established unacceptable long error trails. This approach has been implemented in HSF-SPIN. For selected benchmark and industrial communication protocols experimental evidence is given that trail-directed model-checking effectively shortcuts existing witness paths.
},
             url = {http://eprints.imtlucca.it/171/}
}