Recent years have seen increasing interest in systems that reason about and manipulate executable code. Such systems can generally benefit from information about aliasing. Unfort...
Nuprl and HOL are both tactic-based interactive theorem provers for higher-order logic, and both have been used in many substantial applications over the last decade. However, the ...
Abstract. This paper presents an extension of disjunctive datalog (Datalog∨ ) by nested rules. Nested rules are (disjunctive) rules where elements of the head may be also rules. ...
Abadi and Cardelli have recently investigated a calculus of objects [2]. The calculus supports a key feature of object-oriented languages: an object can be emulated by another obj...
Even though it is not very often admitted, partial functions do play a significant role in many practical applications of deduction systems. Kleene has already given a semantic acc...