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ICSE
2003
IEEE-ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Modular Verification of Software Components in C
We present a new methodology for automatic verification of C programs against finite state machine specifications. Our approach is compositional, naturally enabling us to decompos...
Sagar Chaki, Edmund M. Clarke, Alex Groce, Somesh ...
ICFP
2003
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Mechanising Hankin and Barendregt using the Gordon-Melham axioms
I describe the mechanisation in HOL of some basic -calculus theory, using the axioms proposed by Gordon and Melham [4]. Using these as a foundation, I mechanised the proofs from C...
Michael Norrish
SOFSEM
2010
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Finding and Certifying Loops
Abstract. The first part of this paper presents a new approach for automatically proving nontermination of string rewrite systems. We encode rewrite sequences as propositional for...
Harald Zankl, Christian Sternagel, Dieter Hofbauer...
GECCO
2007
Springer
158views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
14 years 4 months ago
Continuous lunches are free!
This paper investigates extensions of No Free Lunch (NFL) theorems to countably infinite and uncountable infinite domains. The original NFL due to Wolpert and Macready states th...
Anne Auger, Olivier Teytaud
LPAR
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Extending a Resolution Prover for Inequalities on Elementary Functions
Abstract. Experiments show that many inequalities involving exponentials and logarithms can be proved automatically by combining a resolution theorem prover with a decision procedu...
Behzad Akbarpour, Lawrence C. Paulson