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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

Large language models (LLM), such as Google's Minerva and OpenAI's GPT families, are becoming increasingly capable of solving mathematical quantitative reasoning problems. However, they still make unjustified logical and computational…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Jin Peng Zhou , Charles Staats , Wenda Li , Christian Szegedy , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Yuhuai Wu

Quantum Hoare Logic (QHL) was introduced in Ying's work to specify and reason about quantum programs. In this paper, we implement a theorem prover for QHL based on Isabelle/HOL. By applying the theorem prover, verifying a quantum program…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-01-18 Tao Liu , Yangjia Li , Shuling Wang , Mingsheng Ying , Naijun Zhan

This paper explores epistemic realizability, a form of realizability in which the property that a piece of data constitutes evidence for a logical proposition is semi-decidable. In this framework, each proposition A is assigned a verifier}…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Pablo Barenbaum

Despite the considerable interest in new dependent type theories, simple type theory (which dates from 1940) is sufficient to formalise serious topics in mathematics. This point is seen by examining formal proofs of a theorem about…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Lawrence C. Paulson

Linear logic (LL) is a resource-aware, abstract logic programming language that refines both classical and intuitionistic logic. Linear logic semantics is typically presented in one of two ways: by associating each formula with the set of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Victor Barroso-Nascimento , Ekaterina Piotrovskaya , Elaine Pimentel

In this article we present an ongoing effort to formalise quantum algorithms and results in quantum information theory using the proof assistant Isabelle/HOL. Formal methods being critical for the safety and security of algorithms and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Anthony Bordg , Hanna Lachnitt , Yijun He

We introduce our implementation in HOL Light of the metatheory for G\"odel-L\"ob provability logic (GL), covering soundness and completeness w.r.t. possible world semantics and featuring a prototype of a theorem prover for GL itself. The…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Marco Maggesi , Cosimo Perini Brogi

Enterprise modeling deals with the increasing complexity of processes and systems by operationalizing model content and by linking complementary models and languages, thus amplifying the model-value beyond mere comprehensible pictures. To…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Victoria Döller

Formal verification of complex algorithms is challenging. Verifying their implementations goes beyond the state of the art of current automatic verification tools and usually involves intricate mathematical theorems. Certifying algorithms…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-02-01 Eyad Alkassar , Sascha Böhme , Kurt Mehlhorn , Christine Rizkallah

This article introduces Globular, an online proof assistant for the formalization and verification of proofs in higher-dimensional category theory. The tool produces graphical visualizations of higher-dimensional proofs, assists in their…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Krzysztof Bar , Aleks Kissinger , Jamie Vicary

Incorrectness Separation Logic (ISL) is a proof system designed to automate verification and detect bugs in programs manipulating heap memories. In this study, we extend ISL to support variable-length array predicates and pointer…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yeonseok Lee , Koji Nakazawa

Epistemic logic programs constitute an extension of the stable models semantics to deal with new constructs called subjective literals. Informally speaking, a subjective literal allows checking whether some regular literal is true in all…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Pedro Cabalar , Jorge Fandinno , Luis Fariñas del Cerro

Auto2 is a recently introduced prover for the proof assistant Isabelle. It is designed to be both highly customizable from within Isabelle, and also have a powerful proof search mechanism. In this paper, we apply auto2 to the verification…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Bohua Zhan

This paper explores verification of constituent systems within the context of the Symphony tool platform for Systems of Systems (SoS). Our SoS modelling language, CML, supports various contractual specification elements, such as state…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-05-09 Luis Diogo Couto , Simon Foster , Richard Payne

The formalisation of mathematics is continuing rapidly, however combinatorics continues to present challenges to formalisation efforts, such as its reliance on techniques from a wide range of other fields in mathematics. This paper presents…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Chelsea Edmonds , Lawrence C. Paulson

We present a proof procedure for univariate real polynomial problems in Isabelle/HOL. The core mathematics of our procedure is based on univariate cylindrical algebraic decomposition. We follow the approach of untrusted certificates,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Wenda Li , Grant Olney Passmore , Lawrence C. Paulson

Ackermann's function can be expressed using an iterative algorithm, which essentially takes the form of a term rewriting system. Although the termination of this algorithm is far from obvious, its equivalence to the traditional recursive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Lawrence C Paulson

Proof assistants offer tactics to apply proof by induction, but these tactics rely on inputs given by human engineers. To automate this laborious process, we developed SeLFiE, a boolean query language to represent experienced users'…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Yutaka Nagashima

We want to verify the correctness of optimization phases in the GraalVM compiler, which consist of many thousands of lines of complex Java code performing sophisticated graph transformations. We have built high-level models of the data…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Mark Utting , Brae J. Webb , Ian J. Hayes