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BIRTHDAY
2006
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Reductio ad Absurdum: Planning Proofs by Contradiction
Sometimes it is pragmatically useful to prove a theorem by contradiction rather than finding a direct proof. Some reductio ad absurdum arguments have made mathematical history and ...
Erica Melis, Martin Pollet, Jörg H. Siekmann
ICFEM
2004
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Verifying a File System Implementation
Abstract. We present a correctness proof for a basic file system implementation. This implementation contains key elements of standard Unix file systems such as inodes and fixed...
Konstantine Arkoudas, Karen Zee, Viktor Kuncak, Ma...
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TAPSOFT
1997
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Traces of I/O-Automata in Isabelle/HOLCF
Abstract. This paper presents a formalization of nite and in nite sequences in domain theory carried out in the theorem prover Isabelle. The results are used to model the metatheor...
Olaf Müller, Tobias Nipkow
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PLPV
2009
ACM
16 years 13 days ago
Embedding a logical theory of constructions in Agda
We propose a new way to reason about general recursive functional programs in the dependently typed programming language Agda, which is based on Martin-L¨of’s intuitionistic ty...
Ana Bove, Peter Dybjer, Andrés Sicard-Ram&i...
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TPHOL
1998
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
The Village Telephone System: A Case Study in Formal Software Engineering
In this paper we illustrate the use of formal methods in the development of a benchmark application we call the Village Telephone System which is characteristic of a class of netwo...
Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Carl A. Gunter, Elsa L. Gun...