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In order to increase user confidence, many automated theorem provers provide certificates that can be independently verified. In this paper, we report on our progress in developing a standalone tool for checking the correctness of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Frédéric Blanqui , Kim Quyen Ly

A critical step towards certifying safety-critical systems is to check their conformance to hard real-time requirements. A promising way to achieve this is by building the systems from pre-verified components and verifying their correctness…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-06-12 Linna Pang , Chen-Wei Wang , Mark Lawford , Alan Wassyng , Josh Newell , Vera Chow , David Tremaine

Proof assistants are getting more widespread use in research and industry to provide certified and independently checkable guarantees about theories, designs, systems and implementations. However, proof assistant implementations themselves…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Matthieu Sozeau

Safety-critical software systems are in many cases designed and implemented as families of products, usually referred to as Software Product Lines (SPLs). Products within an SPL vary from each other in terms of which features they include.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Ramy Shahin , Sahar Kokaly , Marsha Chechik

Automatic software verification tools help to find hard-to-detect faults in programs checked against specified requirements non-interactively. Besides, they can prove program correctness formally under certain assumptions. These…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Ilja Zakharov , Evgeny Novikov , Ilya Shchepetkov

We introduce a model-checking tool intended specially for the analysis of quantum information protocols. The tool incorporates an efficient representation of a certain class of quantum circuits, namely those expressible in the so-called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-21 Simon Gay , Rajagopal Nagarajan , Nikolaos Papanikolaou

Cyber-physical systems, such as learning robots and other autonomous systems, employ high-integrity software in their safety-critical control. This software is developed using a range of tools some of which need to be qualified for this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Mario Gleirscher , Robert Sachtleben , Jan Peleska

This paper focuses on formally specifying and verifying the chain of formal semantics of the Esterel synchronous programming language using the Coq proof assistant. In particular, in addition to the standard logical (LBS) semantics,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Gérard Berry , Lionel Rieg

In this paper, we investigate the probabilistic formal verification of stochastic dynamical systems over continuous state spaces. Motivated by problems in state estimation and information-flow security, we introduce the notion of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Bohan Cui , Jianing Zhao , Yu Chen , Alessandro Abate , Marta Kwiatkowska , Xiang Yin

This paper presents the verification of control systems implemented in Simulink. The goal is to ensure that high-level requirements on control performance, like stability, are satisfied by the Simulink diagram. A two stage process is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Dejanira Araiza-Illan , Kerstin Eder , Arthur Richards

Machine learning applications have become ubiquitous. Their applications range from embedded control in production machines over process optimization in diverse areas (e.g., traffic, finance, sciences) to direct user interactions like…

We apply the foundational proof certificate (FPC) framework to the problem of designing high-level outlines of proofs. The FPC framework provides a means to formally define and check a wide range of proof evidence. A focused proof system is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-11-16 Roberto Blanco , Dale Miller

We present CertiQ, a verification framework for writing and verifying compiler passes of Qiskit, the most widely-used quantum compiler. To our knowledge, CertiQ is the first effort enabling the verification of real-world quantum compiler…

Several techniques and tools have been developed for verification of properties expressed as Horn clauses with constraints over a background theory (CHC). Current CHC verification tools implement intricate algorithms and are often limited…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2014-05-16 John P. Gallagher , Bishoksan Kafle

Validation of conformance to cybersecurity standards for industrial automation and control systems is an expensive and time consuming process which can delay the time to market. It is therefore crucial to introduce conformance validation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Christian Göttel , Maëlle Kabir-Querrec , David Kozhaya , Thanikesavan Sivanthi , Ognjen Vuković

We present Leapfrog, a Coq-based framework for verifying equivalence of network protocol parsers. Our approach is based on an automata model of P4 parsers, and an algorithm for symbolically computing a compact representation of a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Ryan Doenges , Tobias Kappé , John Sarracino , Nate Foster , Greg Morrisett

One of the main issues in proof certification is that different theorem provers, even when designed for the same logic, tend to use different proof formalisms and produce outputs in different formats. The project ProofCert promotes the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Tomer Libal , Marco Volpe

Quantum error correction (QEC) is fundamental for suppressing noise in quantum hardware and enabling fault-tolerant quantum computation. In this paper, we propose an efficient verification framework for QEC programs. We define an assertion…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Qifan Huang , Li Zhou , Wang Fang , Mengyu Zhao , Mingsheng Ying

In the domain of Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) programming, converting a Ladder Diagram (LD) into a Sequential Function Chart (SFC) is an inherently challenging problem, primarily due to the lack of domain-specific knowledge and the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Yimin Zhang , Mario de Sousa

An invaluable feature of computer algebra systems is their ability to plot the graph of functions. Unfortunately, when one is trying to design a library of mathematical functions, this feature often falls short, producing incorrect and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Guillaume Melquiond