Abstract. This paper describes a specialised logic for proving specifications in the Java Modeling Language (JML). JML is an interface specification language for Java. It allows ...
SD2 is a system of Venn-type diagrams that can be used to reason diagrammatically about sets, their cardinalities and their relationships. They augment the systems of Venn-Peirce ...
Formal methods are a nice idea, but the size and complexity of real systems means that they are impractical. We propose that a reasonable alternative to attempting to specify and ...
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...
In this paper we describe an approach for integrating abduction and induction in the ILP setting of learning from interpretations with the aim of solving the problem of incomplete...