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TLCA
1993
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Logic for Parametric Polymorphism
In this paper we introduce a logic for parametric polymorphism. Just as LCF is a logic for the simply-typed λ-calculus with recursion and arithmetic, our logic is a logic for Sys...
Gordon D. Plotkin, Martín Abadi
PR
2007
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13 years 6 months ago
Design and formal proof of a new optimal image segmentation program with hypermaps
This article presents the design of a new functional 2D image segmentation algorithm by cell merging in a subdivision, its proof of total correctness, and the derivation of an opt...
Jean-François Dufourd
TLCA
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Lexicographic Path Induction
Abstract. Programming languages theory is full of problems that reduce to proving the consistency of a logic, such as the normalization of typed lambda-calculi, the decidability of...
Jeffrey Sarnat, Carsten Schürmann
APLAS
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Reasoning about Computations Using Two-Levels of Logic
We describe an approach to using one logic to reason about specifications written in a second logic. One level of logic, called the "reasoning logic", is used to state th...
Dale Miller
TPHOL
2005
IEEE
14 years 29 days ago
Alpha-Structural Recursion and Induction
The nominal approach to abstract syntax deals with the issues of bound names and α-equivalence by considering constructions and properties that are invariant with respect to permu...
Andrew M. Pitts