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One of the effective model checking methods is to utilize the efficient decision procedure of SAT (or SMT) solvers. In a SAT-based model checking, a system and its property are encoded into a set of logic formulas and the safety is checked…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Daisuke Ishii , Saito Fujii

We present SilVer (Silq Verification), an automated tool for verifying behaviors of quantum programs written in Silq, which is a high-level programming language for quantum computing. The goal of the verification is to ensure correctness of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Marco Lewis , Paolo Zuliani , Sadegh Soudjani

SMT solvers use sophisticated techniques for polynomial (linear or non-linear) integer arithmetic. In contrast, non-polynomial integer arithmetic has mostly been neglected so far. However, in the context of program verification, polynomials…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Florian Frohn , Jürgen Giesl

Computer-aided analysis of security protocols heavily relies on equational theories to model cryptographic primitives. Most automated verifiers for security protocols focus on equational theories that satisfy the Finite Variant Property…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Vincent Cheval , Caroline Fontaine

Complex systems typically have many different parts and facets, with different characteristics. In a multi-paradigm approach to modeling, formalisms with different natures are used in combination to describe complementary parts and aspects…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-08-14 Marcello M. Bersani , Carlo A. Furia , Matteo Pradella , Matteo Rossi

We propose a method to write and check a specification including quantifiers using behaviors, i.e., input-output pairs. Our method requires the following input from the user: (1) answers to a finite number of queries, each of which presents…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-07-29 Paul C. Attie , Fadi A. Zaraket , Mohamad Noureddine , Farah El-Hariri

I introduce an approach for automated reasoning in first order set theories that are not finitely axiomatizable, such as $ZFC$, and describe its implementation alongside the automated theorem proving software E. I then compare the results…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-02-05 John Hester

An emerging branch of control theory specialises in certificate learning, concerning the specification of a desired (possibly complex) system behaviour for an autonomous or control model, which is then analytically verified by means of a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Alec Edwards , Andrea Peruffo , Alessandro Abate

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

This report describes several approaches for handling synthesis conjectures within an Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solver. We describe approaches that primarily focus on determining the unsatisfiability of the negated form of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-10-12 Andrew Reynolds

Finite-state models, such as finite-state machines (FSMs), aid software engineering in many ways. They are often used in formal verification and also can serve as visual software models. The latter application is associated with the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Vladimir Ulyantsev , Igor Buzhinsky , Anatoly Shalyto

In this work we considerably improve the state-of-the-art SMT solving on first-order quantified problems by efficient machine learning guidance of quantifier selection. Quantifiers represent a significant challenge for SMT and are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Jan Jakubův , Mikoláš Janota , Jelle Piepenbrock , Josef Urban

The need to model and analyse dynamic systems operating over complex data is ubiquitous in AI and neighboring areas, in particular business process management. Analysing such data-aware systems is a notoriously difficult problem, as they…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Alessandro Gianola , Marco Montali , Sarah Winkler

A comprehensive verification of parallel software imposes three crucial requirements on the procedure that implements it. Apart from accepting real code as program input and temporal formulae as specification input, the verification should…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-04-01 Jiri Barnat , Petr Bauch

In this work we develop a fully automatic verification procedure of safety properties of Scade programs. We transform each such program into an SMT instance (Satisfiability Modulo Theories) and feed this to a solver. The goal is to have a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-03-13 Henning Basold

We propose a fragment of many-sorted second order logic called EQSMT and show that checking satisfiability of sentences in this fragment is decidable. EQSMT formulae have an $\exists^*\forall^*$ quantifier prefix (over variables, functions…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-09-28 P. Madhusudan , Umang Mathur , Shambwaditya Saha , Mahesh Viswanathan

First-order logic, and quantifiers in particular, are widely used in deductive verification. Quantifiers are essential for describing systems with unbounded domains, but prove difficult for automated solvers. Significant effort has been…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Neta Elad , Oded Padon , Sharon Shoham

Mathematical optimization is ubiquitous in modern applications. However, in practice, we often need to use nonlinear optimization models, for which the existing optimization tools such as Cplex or Gurobi may not be directly applicable and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Jian Cao , Liyong Lin , Lele Li

In this work, we prove over 3000 previously ATP-unproved Mizar/MPTP problems by using several ATP and AI methods, raising the number of ATP-solved Mizar problems from 75\% to above 80\%. First, we start to experiment with the cvc5 SMT…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Jan Jakubův , Mikoláš Janota , Josef Urban

Software model checkers based on under-approximations and SMT solvers are very successful at verifying safety (i.e. reachability) properties. They combine two key ideas -- (a) "concreteness": a counterexample in an under-approximation is a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-06-11 Anvesh Komuravelli , Arie Gurfinkel , Sagar Chaki , Edmund M. Clarke