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Qualitative and quantitative approaches to reasoning about uncertainty can lead to different logical systems for formalizing such reasoning, even when the language for expressing uncertainty is the same. In the case of reasoning about…

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Verifying the functional correctness of programs with both classical and quantum constructs is a challenging task. The presence of probabilistic behaviour entailed by quantum measurements and unbounded while loops complicate the…

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Separation logic is a substructural logic which has proved to have numerous and fruitful applications to the verification of programs working on dynamic data structures. Recently, Barthe, Hsu and Liao have proposed a new way of giving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Ugo Dal Lago , Davide Davoli , Bruce M. Kapron

Properties such as provable security and correctness for randomized programs are naturally expressed relationally as approximate equivalences. As a result, a number of relational program logics have been developed to reason about such…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Philipp G. Haselwarter , Kwing Hei Li , Alejandro Aguirre , Simon Oddershede Gregersen , Joseph Tassarotti , Lars Birkedal

We present a logical separability analysis for a functional quantum computation language. This logic is inspired by previous works on logical analysis of aliasing for imperative functional programs. Both analyses share similarities notably…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-13 F. Prost , C. Zerrari

Although randomization has long been used in distributed computing, formal methods for reasoning about probabilistic concurrent programs have lagged behind. No existing program logics can express specifications about the full distributions…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Noam Zilberstein , Alexandra Silva , Joseph Tassarotti

A principled approach to the design of program verification and con- struction tools is applied to separation logic. The control flow is modelled by power series with convolution as separating conjunction. A generic construction lifts…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-10-17 Brijesh Dongol , Victor B. F. Gomes , Georg Struth

Separation logic and its variants can describe various properties on pointer programs. However, when it comes to properties on sequences, one may find it hard to formalize. To deal with properties on variable-length sequences and multilevel…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Tianyue Cao , Bowen Zhang , Zhao Jin , Yongzhi Cao , Hanpin Wang

Sequential propositional logic deviates from ordinary propositional logic by taking into account that during the sequential evaluation of a propositional statement,atomic propositions may yield different Boolean values at repeated…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-06-28 J. A. Bergstra , A. Ponse

We explore a kind of first-order predicate logic with intended semantics in the reals. Compared to other approaches in the literature, we work predominantly in the multiplicative reals $[0,\infty]$, showing they support three generations of…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Matteo Capucci

Qualitative Choice Logic (QCL) and Conjunctive Choice Logic (CCL) are formalisms for preference handling, with especially QCL being well established in the field of AI. So far, analyses of these logics need to be done on a case-by-case…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Michael Bernreiter , Jan Maly , Stefan Woltran

A probabilistic propositional logic, endowed with an epistemic component for asserting (non-)compatibility of diagonizable and bounded observables, is presented and illustrated for reasoning about the random results of projective…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-03-20 A. Sernadas , J. Rasga , C. Sernadas , L. Alcácer , A. B. Henriques

We introduce eRHL, a program logic for reasoning about relational expectation properties of pairs of probabilistic programs. eRHL is quantitative, i.e., its pre- and post-conditions take values in the extended non-negative reals. Thanks to…

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Duality theorems play a fundamental role in convex optimization. Recently, it was shown how duality theorems for countable probability distributions and finite-dimensional quantum states can be leveraged for building relatively complete…

Probabilistic separation logic offers an approach to reasoning about imperative probabilistic programs in which a separating conjunction is used as a mechanism for expressing independence properties. Crucial to the effectiveness of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Janez Ignacij Jereb , Alex Simpson

In this paper we propose an extension of Answer Set Programming (ASP), and in particular, of its most general logical counterpart, Quantified Equilibrium Logic (QEL), to deal with partial functions. Although the treatment of equality in QEL…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-06-21 Pedro Cabalar

Although quantum logic by using exogenous approach has been proposed for reasoning about closed quantum systems, an improvement would be worth to study quantum logic based on density operators instead of unit vectors in the state logic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-27 Yunguo Lin , Yongming Li

The term proposition usually denotes in quantum mechanics (QM) an element of (standard) quantum logic (QL). Within the orthodox interpretation of QM the propositions of QL cannot be associated with sentences of a language stating properties…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Claudio Garola , Sandro Sozzo

Most automated verifiers for separation logic target the symbolic-heap fragment, disallowing both the magic-wand operator and the application of classical Boolean operators to spatial formulas. This is not surprising, as support for the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Jens Pagel , Florian Zuleger

The framework of quantitative equational logic has been successfully applied to reason about algebras whose carriers are metric spaces and operations are nonexpansive. We extend this framework in two orthogonal directions: algebras endowed…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Matteo Mio , Ralph Sarkis , Valeria Vignudelli