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We present a unified deductive verification framework for first-order temporal properties based on well-founded rankings, where verification conditions are discharged using SMT solvers. To that end, we introduce a novel reduction from…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Raz Lotan , Neta Elad , Oded Padon , Sharon Shoham

Despite an abundance of proposed systems, the verification of units-of-measure within programs remains rare in scientific computing. We attempt to address this issue by providing a lightweight static verification system for units-of-measure…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Matthew Danish , Dominic Orchard , Andrew Rice

This report presents the Dafny language and verifier, with a focus on describing the main features of the language, including pre- and postconditions, assertions, loop invariants, termination metrics, quantifiers, predicates and frames.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Rachel Gauci

The use of function contracts to specify the behavior of functions often remains limited to the scope of a single function call. Relational properties link several function calls together within a single specification. They can express more…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Lionel Blatter , Nikolai Kosmatov , Virgile Prevosto , Pascale Le Gall

Many quantitative properties of probabilistic programs can be characterized as least fixed points, but verifying their lower bounds remains a challenging problem. We present a new approach to lower-bound verification that exploits and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Satoshi Kura , Hiroshi Unno , Takeshi Tsukada

We explore the use of liveness for interactive program verification for a simple concurrent object language. Our experimental IDE integrates two (formally dual) kinds of continuous testing into the development environment:…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Roly Perera , Simon J. Gay

Applying deductive verification to formally prove that a program respects its formal specification is a very complex and time-consuming task due in particular to the lack of feedback in case of proof failures. Along with a non-compliance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-08-10 Guillaume Petiot , Nikolai Kosmatov , Bernard Botella , Alain Giorgetti , Jacques Julliand

This extended abstract reports on previous work of the CamFort project in which we developed an external units-of-measure type system for Fortran code, targeted at scientists. Our approach can guide the programmer in adding specifications…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Dominic Orchard , Mistral Contrastin , Matthew Danish , Andrew Rice

Networks are difficult to configure correctly, and tricky to debug. These problems are accentuated by temporal and stateful behavior. Static verification, while useful, is ineffectual for detecting behavioral deviations induced by hardware…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-07-18 Tim Nelson , Nicholas DeMarinis , Timothy Adam Hoff , Rodrigo Fonseca , Shriram Krishnamurthi

We present a tool for verification of deterministic programs with shared mutable references against specifications such as assertions, preconditions, postconditions, and read/write effects. We implement our tool by encoding programs with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Georg Schmid , Viktor Kunčak

Formal verification plays a crucial role in making smart contracts safer, being able to find bugs or to guarantee their absence, as well as checking whether the business logic is correctly implemented. For Solidity, even though there…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Massimo Bartoletti , Silvia Crafa , Enrico Lipparini

As quantum computers and simulators begin to produce results that cannot be verified classically, it becomes imperative to develop a variety of tools to detect and diagnose experimental errors on these devices. While state or process…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-22 Alaina M. Green , Tanmoy Pandit , C. Huerta Alderete , Norbert M. Linke , Raam Uzdin

The criteria for determining graph isomorphism are crucial for solving graph isomorphism problems. The necessary condition is that two isomorphic graphs possess invariants, but their function can only be used to filtrate and subdivide…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Chuanfu Hu , Aimin Hou

Satisfiability solving is a common technique for formal verification forming the basis of many proof and model checking systems. Failure to show a proof obligation will produce a counterexample or failure trace with typically many thousands…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Lars-Henrik Eriksson

We develop a monitoring procedure to detect changes in a large approximate factor model. Letting $r$ be the number of common factors, we base our statistics on the fact that the $\left( r+1\right) $-th eigenvalue of the sample covariance…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-02-03 Matteo Barigozzi , Lorenzo Trapani

Automated feedback generation for introductory programming assignments is useful for programming education. Most works try to generate feedback to correct a student program by comparing its behavior with an instructor's reference program on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Umair Z. Ahmed , Zhiyu Fan , Jooyong Yi , Omar I. Al-Bataineh , Abhik Roychoudhury

Context: Security and performance (S&P) are critical non-functional requirements on software systems. Therefore, verification activities should be included in the development process to identify related defects and avoiding S&P failures…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Victor Vidigal Ribeiro , Daniela Soares Cruzes , Guilherme Horta Travassos

In this paper we describe how to leverage higher-order unification to type check a dependently typed language with meta-variables. The literature usually presents the unification algorithm as a standalone component, however the need to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Francesco Mazzoli , Andreas Abel

The current verification flow of complex systems uses different engines synergistically: virtual prototyping, formal verification, simulation, emulation and FPGA prototyping. However, none is able to verify a complete architecture.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Tomas Grimm , Djones Lettnin , Michael Hübner

Fact-checking real-world claims often requires collecting multiple pieces of evidence and applying complex multi-step reasoning. In this paper, we present Program-Guided Fact-Checking (ProgramFC), a novel fact-checking model that decomposes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Liangming Pan , Xiaobao Wu , Xinyuan Lu , Anh Tuan Luu , William Yang Wang , Min-Yen Kan , Preslav Nakov