FLOC 2018: FEDERATED LOGIC CONFERENCE 2018
Automating the Diagram Method to Prove Correctness of Program Transformations

Author: David Sabel

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Title:Automating the Diagram Method to Prove Correctness of Program Transformations
Authors:David Sabel
Proceedings:WPTE Extended Abstracts
Editor: Joachim Niehren
Keywords:correctness, deduction, verification, observational equivalence, contextual equivalence, program transformation, semantics
Abstract:

ABSTRACT. Our recently developed LRSX Tool implements a technique to automatically prove the correctness of program transformations in higher-order program calculi which may permit recursive let-bindings. The focused notion of correctness for program transformations is invariance with respect to the observational semantics of programs. The so-called diagram method is automated by combining unification, matching, and reasoning on alpha-renamings on the higher-order meta-language, and automating induction proofs via an encoding into termination problems of term rewrite systems. We explain the techniques, we illustrate the usage of the tool, and we report on experiments.

Pages:15
Talk:Jul 08 11:00 (Session 38Q)
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