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About 32% of a software practitioners' day involves seeking and using information to support task completion. Although the information needs of software practitioners have been studied extensively, the impact of AI-assisted tools on their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Ebtesam Al Haque , Chris Brown , Thomas D. LaToza , Brittany Johnson

Modern mathematics is built on the idea that proofs should be translatable into formal proofs, whose validity is an objective question, decidable by a computer. Yet, in practice, proofs are informal and may omit many details. An agent…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Sylvain Carré , Franck Gabriel , Clément Hongler , Gustavo Lacerda , Gloria Capano

There are various kinds of type analysis of logic programs. These include for example inference of types that describe an over-approximation of the success set of a program, inference of well-typings, and abstractions based on given types.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Kim Henriksen , John Gallagher

This report describes the state of the art in verifiable computation. The problem being solved is the following: The Verifiable Computation Problem (Verifiable Computing Problem) Suppose we have two computing agents. The first agent is the…

This work discusses an approach to teach to mathematicians the importance and effectiveness of the application of Interactive Theorem Proving tools in their specific fields of interest. The approach aims to motivate the use of such tools…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Mauricio Ayala-Rincón , Thaynara Arielly de Lima

The Coq Platform is a continuously developed distribution of the Coq proof assistant together with commonly used libraries, plugins, and external tools useful in Coq-based formal verification projects. The Coq Platform enables reproducing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Karl Palmskog , Enrico Tassi , Théo Zimmermann

Static type errors are a common stumbling block for newcomers to typed functional languages. We present a dynamic approach to explaining type errors by generating counterexample witness inputs that illustrate how an ill-typed program goes…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Eric L Seidel , Ranjit Jhala , Westley Weimer

Software testing is an important part of the development cycle, yet it requires specialized expertise and substantial developer effort to adequately test software. Recent discoveries of the capabilities of large language models (LLMs)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Robert Feldt , Sungmin Kang , Juyeon Yoon , Shin Yoo

Modern research heavily relies on software. A significant challenge researchers face is understanding the complex software used in specific research fields. We target two scenarios in this context, namely long onboarding times for newcomers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Adrian Bajraktari , Andreas Vogelsang

Fact checking is an essential task in journalism; its importance has been highlighted due to recently increased concerns and efforts in combating misinformation. In this paper, we present an automated fact-checking platform which given a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Sebastião Miranda , David Nogueira , Afonso Mendes , Andreas Vlachos , Andrew Secker , Rebecca Garrett , Jeff Mitchel , Zita Marinho

Probabilistic programming is perfectly suited to reliable and transparent data science, as it allows the user to specify their models in a high-level language without worrying about the complexities of how to fit the models. Static analysis…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Ryan Bernstein , Matthijs Vákár , Jeannette Wing

Dynamic languages are praised for their flexibility and expressiveness, but static analysis often yields many false positives and verification is cumbersome for lack of structure. Hence, unit testing is the prevalent incomplete method for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-02-06 Robert Jakob , Peter Thiemann

Static software checking tools are useful as an additional automated software inspection step that can easily be integrated in the development cycle and assist in creating secure, reliable and high quality code. However, an often quoted…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Cathal Boogerd , Leon Moonen

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

In this paper, we compare different existing approaches employed in data mining of big proof libraries in automated and interactive theorem proving.

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-03-07 Jónathan Heras , Ekaterina Komendantskaya

Much algorithmic research in NLP aims to efficiently manipulate rich formal structures. An algorithm designer typically seeks to provide guarantees about their proposed algorithm -- for example, that its running time or space complexity is…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Tim Vieira , Ryan Cotterell , Jason Eisner

Many software development problems can be addressed by program analysis tools, which traditionally are based on precise, logical reasoning and heuristics to ensure that the tools are practical. Recent work has shown tremendous success…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Michael Pradel , Satish Chandra

Proof-carrying-code was proposed as a solution to ensure a trust relationship between two parties: a (heavyweight) analyzer and a (lightweight) checker. The analyzer verifies the conformance of a given application to a specified property…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Mohamed Nassim Seghir

To enable human oversight, agentic AI systems often provide a trace of reasoning and action steps. Designing traces to have an informative, but not overwhelming, level of detail remains a critical challenge. In three user studies on a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin , Hussein Mozannar , Maya Murad , Jingya Chen , Saleema Amershi , Adam Fourney

While there has been some discussion on how Symbolic Computation could be used for AI there is little literature on applications in the other direction. However, recent results for quantifier elimination suggest that, given enough example…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2018-11-01 M. England