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40
Citations
7004
World Ranking
9292
National Ranking
3953

Overview

Rance Cleaveland is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. The primary field of research is computer science, with a focus on several specialized areas.

The main subfields of study include:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Software
  • Hardware and Architecture

Research topics addressed encompass:

  • Formal Methods in Verification
  • Logic, programming, and type systems
  • Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
  • Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques
  • Advanced Database Systems and Queries
  • Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
  • Embedded Systems Design Techniques

Frequent co-authors in their research work include:

  • Jeroen J. A. Keiren
  • Samuel H. Huang
  • Peter Fontana
  • Bhaskar Ramasubramanian
  • M Girish Chandra

Publications have appeared predominantly in the following venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Formal Aspects of Computing
  • Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming
  • International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer
  • Technische Universität Berlin - Universitätsbibliothek

Recent notable papers include:

  • Formal Methods in Industry, 2024, Formal Aspects of Computing
  • A tableau construction for finite linear-time temporal logic, 2021, Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming
  • Temporal-logic query checking over finite data streams, 2022, International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer
  • Integrating model checking and UML based model-driven development for embedded systems, 2024, Technische Universität Berlin - Universitätsbibliothek
  • Resilience to denial-of-service and integrity attacks: A structured systems approach, 2021, European Journal of Control

Best Publications

  • The concurrency workbench: a semantics-based tool for the verification of concurrent systems

    Rance Cleaveland;Joachim Parrow;Bernhard Steffen

  • Using formal specifications to support testing

    Robert M. Hierons;Kirill Bogdanov;Jonathan P. Bowen;Rance Cleaveland

  • A linear-time model-checking algorithm for the alternation-free modal mu-calculus

    Rance Cleaveland;Bernhard Steffen

  • Tableau-based model checking in the propositional mu-calculus

    Rance Cleaveland

  • The NCSU Concurrency Workbench

    Rance Cleaveland;Steve Sims

  • The Concurrency Workbench

    Rance Cleaveland;Joachim Parrow;Bernhard Steffen

  • Efficient on-the-fly model checking for CTL

    G. Bhat;R. Cleaveland;O. Grumberg

  • Testing equivalence as a bisimulation equivalence

    Rance Cleaveland;Matthew Hennessy

  • Priorities in process algebras

    R. Cleaveland;M. Hennessy

  • High-confidence medical device software and systems

    I. Lee;G.J. Pappas;R. Cleaveland;J. Hatcliff

  • Faster Model Checking for the Modal Mu-Calculus

    Rance Cleaveland;Marion Klein;Bernhard Steffen

  • A Semantics Based Verification Tool for Finite State Systems

    Rance Cleaveland;Joachim Parrow;Bernhard Steffen

  • Divergence and Fair Testing

    V. Natarajan;Rance Cleaveland

  • Computing Behavioural Relations, Logically

    Rance Cleaveland;Bernhard Steffen

  • Strategic directions in concurrency research

    Rance Cleaveland;Scott A. Smolka

  • Testing Preorders for Probabilistic Processes

    Rance Cleaveland;Scott A. Smolka;Amy E. Zwarico

  • Triggered Message Sequence Charts

    Bikram Sengupta;R. Cleaveland

  • A compositional approach to statecharts semantics

    Gerald Lüttgen;Michael von der Beeck;Rance Cleaveland

  • Optimality in Abstractions of Model Checking

    Rance Cleaveland;S. Purushothaman Iyer;Daniel Yankelevich

  • Efficient model checking via the equational /spl mu/-calculus

    G. Bhat;R. Cleaveland

  • Testing Preorders for Probabilistic Processes

    Rance Cleaveland;Zeynep Dayar;Scott A. Smolka;Shoji Yuen

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott A. Smolka
Scott A. Smolka Stony Brook University
Bernhard Steffen
Bernhard Steffen TU Dortmund University
Steven I. Marcus
Steven I. Marcus University of Maryland, College Park
Radu Grosu
Radu Grosu TU Wien
Oleg Sokolsky
Oleg Sokolsky University of Pennsylvania
Insup Lee
Insup Lee University of Pennsylvania
Edmund M. Clarke
Edmund M. Clarke Carnegie Mellon University
Rahul Mangharam
Rahul Mangharam University of Pennsylvania
Matthew Hennessy
Matthew Hennessy Trinity College Dublin
James Glimm
James Glimm Stony Brook University

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