This paper introduces a special section of the STTT journal containing a selection of papers that were presented at the 7th International SPIN workshop, Stanford, August 30 - Septe...
— Software maintenance tools for program analysis and refactoring rely on a meta-model capturing the relevant properties of programs. However, what is considered relevant may cha...
It is commonly believed that the meaning of a formal declarative knowledge representation language is determined by its formal semantics. This is not quite so. This paper shows an...
Abstract. We propose a new method to verify that a higher-order, treeprocessing functional program conforms to an input/output specification. Our method reduces the verification pr...
Ensuring the correctness and reliability of software systems is one of the main problems in software development. Model checking, a static analysis method, is preponderant in impr...