We overview the development of first-order automated reasoning systems starting from their early years. Based on the analysis of current and potential applications of such systems...
Programs and Abstract Complexity A. Beckmann University of Wales Swansea Swansea, UK Axiom systems are ubiquitous in mathematical logic, one famous and well studied example being ï...
Coverage checking is the problem of deciding whether any closed term of a given type is an instance of at least one of a given set of patterns. It can be used to verify if a functi...
We present four coinductive operational semantics for the While language accounting for both terminating and non-terminating program runs: big-step and small-step relational semant...
Decision procedures for combinations of theories are at the core of many modern theorem provers such as ACL2, Ehdm, PVS, SIMPLIFY, the Stanford Pascal Verifier, STeP, SVC, and Z/Ev...