A variable is local if it occurs in a clause body but not in its head. Local variables appear naturally in practical logic programming, but they complicate several aspects such as ...
Model checking is a useful method to verify automatically the correctness of a system with respect to a desired behavior, by checking whether a mathematical model of the system sat...
Abstract. We present new careful semantics within Dung’s theory of argumentation. Under such careful semantics, two arguments cannot belong to the same extension whenever one of ...
Sylvie Coste-Marquis, Caroline Devred, Pierre Marq...
Abstract. We discuss a collection of mechanized formal proofs of symmetric key block encryption algorithms (AES, MARS, Twofish, RC6, Serpent, IDEA, and TEA), performed in an imple...
Jianjun Duan, Joe Hurd, Guodong Li, Scott Owens, K...
Abstract. Earlier we introduced Constraint Lambda Calculi which integrate constraint solving with functional programming for the simple case where the constraint solver produces no...