Abstract model checking
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Abstraction Model checking is for systems where an actual representation is too complex and and a state space explosion will result in developing the model alone. So, the design undergoes a kind of translation to scaled down "abstract" version.
References
- Edmund M. Clarke and Orna Grumberg and David E. Long (1992). "Model checking and abstraction". ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. 16 (5): 1512--1542.