It is well known how to use an intuitionistic meta-logic to specify natural deduction systems. It is also possible to use linear logic as a meta-logic for the specification of a va...
Automated verification plays an important role for high assurance software. This typically uses a pair of pre/post conditions as a formal (but possibly partial) specification of e...
Wei-Ngan Chin, Cristina David, Huu Hai Nguyen, She...
Abstract. Much work has been done in verifying a compiler specification, both in hand-written and mechanical proofs. However, there is still a gap between a correct compiler specif...
Declarative specifications exhibit a variety of problems, such as inadvertently overconstrained axioms and underconstrained conjectures, that are hard to diagnose with model checki...
Emina Torlak, Felix Sheng-Ho Chang, Daniel Jackson
This paper explains how the Alloy model-finding method has been used to check the specification of an electronic purse (also called smart card) system, called the Mondex case study...