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Nominal Isabelle is a definitional extension of the Isabelle/HOL theorem prover. It provides a proving infrastructure for reasoning about programming language calculi involving named bound variables (as opposed to de-Bruijn indices). In…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Christian Urban , Cezary Kaliszyk

A logic for specification and verification is derived from the axioms of Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory. The proofs are performed using the proof assistant Isabelle. Isabelle is generic, supporting several different logics. Isabelle has the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Lawrence C. Paulson

In this paper, we present our ongoing work and initial results on the formal specification and verification of MiniMaple (a substantial subset of Maple with slight extensions) programs. The main goal of our work is to find behavioral errors…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2012-07-11 Muhammad Taimoor Khan , Wolfgang Schreiner

The research in AI-based formal mathematical reasoning has shown an unstoppable growth trend. These studies have excelled in mathematical competitions like IMO and have made significant progress. This paper focuses on formal verification,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jialun Cao , Yaojie Lu , Meiziniu Li , Haoyang Ma , Haokun Li , Mengda He , Cheng Wen , Le Sun , Hongyu Zhang , Shengchao Qin , Shing-Chi Cheung , Cong Tian

We present an executable formally verified SAT encoding of classical AI planning. We use the theorem prover Isabelle/HOL to perform the verification. We experimentally test the verified encoding and show that it can be used for reasonably…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Mohammad Abdulaziz , Friedrich Kurz

Probabilistic programming provides a convenient lingua franca for writing succinct and rigorous descriptions of probabilistic models and inference tasks. Several probabilistic programming languages, including Anglican, Church or Hakaru,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Tetsuya Sato , Alejandro Aguirre , Gilles Barthe , Marco Gaboardi , Deepak Garg , Justin Hsu

We present a formalisation of finite Markov decision processes with rewards in the Isabelle theorem prover. We focus on the foundations required for dynamic programming and the use of reinforcement learning agents over such processes. In…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Mark Chevallier , Jacques Fleuriot

Bernays introduced a method for proving underivability results in propositional calculi by truth tables. In general, this motivates an investigations of how to find, given a propositional logic, a finite-valued logic which has as few…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-01-31 Matthias Baaz , Richard Zach

We make a mixture of Milner's $\pi$-calculus and our previous work on truly concurrent process algebra, which is called $\pi_{tc}$. We introduce syntax and semantics of $\pi_{tc}$, its properties based on strongly truly concurrent…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Yong Wang

This thesis presents a formalization of martingales in arbitrary Banach spaces using Isabelle/HOL. We begin by examining formalizations in prominent proof repositories and extend the definition of the conditional expectation operator from…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Ata Keskin

PIE is a Prolog-embedded environment for automated reasoning on the basis of first-order logic. Its main focus is on formulas, as constituents of complex formalizations that are structured through formula macros, and as outputs of reasoning…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Christoph Wernhard

Recently, the Natural Language Inference (NLI) task has been studied for semi-structured tables that do not have a strict format. Although neural approaches have achieved high performance in various types of NLI, including NLI between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Tomoya Kurosawa , Hitomi Yanaka

We present relaxed notions of simulation and bisimulation on Probabilistic Automata (PA), that allow some error epsilon. When epsilon is zero we retrieve the usual notions of bisimulation and simulation on PAs. We give logical…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-07 Mathieu Tracol , Josée Desharnais , Abir Zhioua

Process calculi based in logic, such as $\pi$DILL and CP, provide a foundation for deadlock-free concurrent programming, but exclude non-determinism and races. HCP is a reformulation of CP which addresses a fundamental shortcoming: the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Wen Kokke , J. Garrett Morris , Philip Wadler

A paper on ordinal partitions by Erd\H{o}s and Milner (1972) has been formalised using the proof assistant Isabelle/HOL, augmented with a library for Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory. The work is part of a project on formalising the partition…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Lawrence C. Paulson

Fact verification on tabular evidence incentivises the use of symbolic reasoning models where a logical form is constructed (e.g. a LISP-style program), providing greater verifiability than fully neural approaches. However, these systems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Rami Aly , Andreas Vlachos

We present an implementation of algorithms for the symbolic integration of hyperlogarithms multiplied by rational functions in the computer algebra system FORM. This implementation encompasses cases where hyperlogarithms have rational…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-23 Adam Kardos , Sven-Olaf Moch , Oliver Schnetz

An important learning objective for computer science students is to learn how to formalize descriptions of real world scenarios in order to subsequently solve real world challenges using methods and algorithms from formal foundations of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Tristan Kneisel , Fabian Vehlken , Thomas Zeume

Simulation and formal verification are important complementary techniques necessary in high assurance model-based systems development. In order to support coherent results, it is necessary to provide unifying semantics and automation for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Simon Foster , Chung-Kil Hur , Jim Woodcock

The use of formal language for deductive logical reasoning aligns well with language models (LMs), where translating natural language (NL) into first-order logic (FOL) and employing an external solver results in a verifiable and therefore…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Ramya Keerthy Thatikonda , Jiuzhou Han , Wray Buntine , Ehsan Shareghi