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JLP
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Composition mechanisms for retrenchment
Abstract. Retrenchment is a flexible model evolution formalism that arose as a reaction to the limitations imposed by refinement, and for which the proof obligations feature additi...
Richard Banach, Czeslaw Jeske, Michael Poppleton
LPAR
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Automated Proof Compression by Invention of New Definitions
State-of-the-art automated theorem provers (ATPs) are today able to solve relatively complicated mathematical problems. But as ATPs become stronger and more used by mathematicians...
Jirí Vyskocil, David Stanovský, Jose...
LICS
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Proof Theory for Kleene Algebra
The universal Horn theory of relational Kleene algebra with tests (RKAT) is of practical interest, particularly for program semantics. We develop an (infinitary) proof system, ba...
Chris Hardin
COCO
2003
Springer
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14 years 28 days ago
Memoization and DPLL: Formula Caching Proof Systems
A fruitful connection between algorithm design and proof complexity is the formalization of the ¤¦¥¨§©§ approach to satisfiability testing in terms of tree-like resolution...
Paul Beame, Russell Impagliazzo, Toniann Pitassi, ...
ICSE
2000
IEEE-ACM
13 years 11 months ago
An inheritance-based technique for building simulation proofs incrementally
This paper presents a technique for incrementally constructing safety specifications, abstract algorithm descriptions, and simulation proofs showing that algorithms meet their spe...
Idit Keidar, Roger Khazan, Nancy A. Lynch, Alexand...