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ISAAC
2003
Springer
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15 years 2 months ago
Quantum Merlin-Arthur Proof Systems: Are Multiple Merlins More Helpful to Arthur?
This paper introduces quantum “multiple-Merlin”-Arthur proof systems in which Arthur receives multiple quantum proofs that are unentangled with each other. Although classical ...
Hirotada Kobayashi, Keiji Matsumoto, Tomoyuki Yama...
ICSE
2000
IEEE-ACM
15 years 1 months ago
An inheritance-based technique for building simulation proofs incrementally
This paper presents a technique for incrementally constructing safety specifications, abstract algorithm descriptions, and simulation proofs showing that algorithms meet their spe...
Idit Keidar, Roger Khazan, Nancy A. Lynch, Alexand...
VSTTE
2005
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Verifying Design with Proof Scores
: Verifying design instead of code can be an effective and practical approach to obtaining verified software. This paper argues that proof scores are an attractive method for ver...
Kokichi Futatsugi, Joseph A. Goguen, Kazuhiro Ogat...
FOCS
1991
IEEE
15 years 28 days ago
A parallel algorithmic version of the Local Lemma
The Lov´asz Local Lemma is a tool that enables one to show that certain events hold with positive, though very small probability. It often yields existence proofs of results with...
Noga Alon
AMAST
2004
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
A Generic Software Safety Document Generator
Abstract. Formal certification is based on the idea that a mathematical proof of some property of a piece of software can be regarded as a certificate of correctness which, in pr...
Ewen Denney, Ram Prasad Venkatesan