The third Termination Competition took place in June 2006. We present the background, results and conclusions of this competition. 1 Motivation and history In the past decades seve...
ibe an abstract interpretation based framework for proving relationships between sizes of memory partitions. Instances of this framework can prove traditional properties such as m...
In order to support the verification of programs, verification tools such as ACL2 or Isabelle try to extract suitable induction axioms from the definitions of terminating, recursiv...
A concurrent data-structure implementation is considered nonblocking if it meets one of three following liveness criteria: waitfreedom, lock-freedom, or obstruction-freedom. Devel...
Alexey Gotsman, Byron Cook, Matthew J. Parkinson, ...
Abstract. Walther’s estimation calculus was designed to prove the termination of functional programs, and can also be used to solve the similar problem of proving the well-founde...