In 1973, Parikh proved a speed-up theorem conjectured by G¨odel 37 years before: there exist arithmetical formulæ that are provable in first order arithmetic, but whose shorter ...
Abstract. Possibly the most famous algorithmic meta-theorem is Courcelle's theorem, which states that all MSO-expressible graph properties are decidable in linear time for gra...
Executable business process models build on the specification of process activities, their implemented business functions (e.g., Web services) and the control flow between these a...
The problem of mechanically formalizing and proving metatheoretic properties of programming language calculi, type systems, operational semantics, and related formal systems has r...
Abstract. Theorem provers, model checkers, static analyzers, test generators. . . all of these and many other kinds of formal methods tools can contribute to the analysis and devel...