: Automated deduction systems can considerably be improved by replacing axioms with special purpose inference mechanisms. For example replacing in resolution based systems certain ...
Hoare and He's unifying theories of programming (UTP) is a model of alphabetised relations expressed as predicates; it supports development in several programming paradigms. T...
2 Focus theory Pulman has shown that Higher-Order Unifcation (HOU) can be used to model the interpretation of focus. In this paper, we extend the unification based approach to case...
Abstract. We present an abstract view of existential variables in a dependently typed lambda-calculus based on modal type theory. This allows us to justify optimizations to pattern...