We propose here an extension of Rice's Theorem to first-order logic, proven by totally elementary means. If P is any property defined over the collection of all first-order t...
Abstract. First order logic provides a convenient formalism for describing a wide variety of verification conditions. Two main approaches to checking such conditions are pure first...
Garbage collectors are notoriously hard to verify, due to their lowlevel interaction with the underlying system and the general difficulty in reasoning about reachability in graph...
Arrow’s Theorem is a central result in social choice theory. It states that, under certain natural conditions, it is impossible to aggregate the preferences of a finite set of i...
ion techniques are indispensable for the specification and verification of functional behavior of programs. In object-oriented ation languages like JML, a powerful abstraction tec...