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Despite the recent progress in automatic theorem provers, proof engineers are still suffering from the lack of powerful proof automation. In this position paper we first report our proof strategy language based on a meta-tool approach.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Yutaka Nagashima

This paper presents a formally verified quantifier elimination (QE) algorithm for first-order real arithmetic by linear and quadratic virtual substitution (VS) in Isabelle/HOL. The Tarski-Seidenberg theorem established that the first-order…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Matias Scharager , Katherine Cordwell , Stefan Mitsch , André Platzer

Foundational verification considers the functional correctness of programming languages with formalized semantics and uses proof assistants (e.g., Coq, Isabelle) to certify proofs. The need for verifying complex programs compels it to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Qiyuan Xu , David Sanan , Zhe Hou , Xiaokun Luan , Conrad Watt , Yang Liu

User simulators are increasingly central to interactive information retrieval, yet the community lacks standardized evaluation tools. Simulators serve two objectives, behavioral realism (matching real user behavior) and tester reliability…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Saber Zerhoudi

We present a tool called HHLPar for verifying hybrid systems modelled in Hybrid Communicating Sequential Processes (HCSP). HHLPar is built upon a Hybrid Hoare Logic for HCSP, which is able to reason about continuous-time properties of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Xiangyu Jin , Bohua Zhan , Shuling Wang , Naijun Zhan

Mission-time Linear Temporal Logic (MLTL) is rapidly increasing in popularity as a specification logic, e.g., for runtime verification and model checking, driving a need for a trustworthy tool base for analyzing MLTL. In this work, we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Katherine Kosaian , Zili Wang , Elizabeth Sloan , Kristin Rozier

Interactive theorem provers, like Isabelle/HOL, Coq and Lean, have expressive languages that allow the formalization of general mathematical objects and proofs. In this context, an important goal is to reduce the time and effort needed to…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Marcus Rossel , Andrés Goens

In the paper I discuss a tool for helping students in their symbolizations of natural language sentences using the formal language of classical first order logic (CFOL). The tool is an extension of Hintikka's concept of (Inquirer's) range…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-07-19 Levis Zerpa

We introduce a proof recommender system for the HOL4 theorem prover. Our tool is built upon a transformer-based model [2] designed specifically to provide proof assistance in HOL4. The model is trained to discern theorem proving patterns…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Nour Dekhil , Adnan Rashid , Sofiene Tahar

An Isabelle/HOL formalisation of G\"odel's two incompleteness theorems is presented. The work follows \'Swierczkowski's detailed proof of the theorems using hereditarily finite (HF) set theory. Avoiding the usual arithmetical encodings of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Lawrence C. Paulson

Studying unified model averaging estimation for situations with complicated data structures, we propose a novel model averaging method based on cross-validation (MACV). MACV unifies a large class of new and existing model averaging…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-12-16 Dalei Yu , Xinyu Zhang , Hua Liang

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

This paper presents meta-logical investigations based on category theory using the proof assistant Isabelle/HOL. We demonstrate the potential of a free logic based shallow semantic embedding of category theory by providing a formalization…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Jonas Bayer , Aleksey Gonus , Christoph Benzmüller , Dana S. Scott

Dynamic logic is a modal logic for reasoning about programs. A cyclic proof system is a proof system that allows proofs containing cycles and is an alternative to a proof system containing (co-)induction. This paper introduces a sequent…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yukihiro Oda

In this work, we explore proof theoretical connections between sequent, nested and labelled calculi. In particular, we show a general algorithm for transforming a class of nested systems into sequent calculus systems, passing through linear…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Elaine Pimentel

Church's Higher Order Logic is a basis for influential proof assistants -- HOL and PVS. Church's logic has a simple set-theoretic semantics, making it trustworthy and extensible. We factor HOL into a constructive core plus axioms of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Robert Constable , Wojciech Moczydlowski

Cuv\'ee is a program verification tool that reads SMT-LIB-like input files where terms may additionally contain weakest precondition operators over abstract programs. Cuv\'ee translates such inputs into first-order SMT-LIB by symbolically…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Gidon Ernst

OCaml is particularly well-fitted for formal verification. On one hand, it is a multi-paradigm language with a well-defined semantics, allowing one to write clean, concise, type-safe, and efficient code. On the other hand, it is a language…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Mário Pereira , António Ravara

We present a novel unity of logic, viz., a single sequent calculus that embodies classical, intuitionistic and linear logics. Concretely, we define classical linear logic negative (CLL$^-$), a new logic that is classical and linear yet…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-01-08 Norihiro Yamada

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