• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.37 no.9
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• pp.669-675
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• 2010

For detecting requirement errors in early system development phase, the behaviors of a system should be described in formal methods and be analyzed with analysis techniques such as reachability analysis and cycle detection. However, since they are usually based on explicit exploration of system state space, state explosion problem may be occurred when a system becomes complex. That is, the memory and execution time for exploration exponentially increase due to a huge state space. In this paper, we analyze the fundamental causes of this problem in concurrent systems and explore the state space without composing concurrent state spaces for reducing the memory requirement for exploration. Also our new technique keeps a visited history minimally for reducing execution time. Finally we represent experimental results which show the efficiency of our technique.