Email Gateway (Aug 19 2022 at 13:35): Email Gateway (Aug 19 2022 at 13:35):From: Gerwin Klein <Gerwin.Klein@nicta.com.au>
A new AFP entry is online:
Verification of Selection and Heap Sort Using Locales
by Danijela Petrovic
Abstract:
Stepwise program refinement techniques can be used to simplify program verification. Programs are better understood since their main properties are clearly stated, and verification of rather complex algorithms is reduced to proving simple statements connecting successive program specifications. Additionally, it is easy to analyze similar algorithms and to compare their properties within a single formalization. Usually, formal analysis is not done in educational setting due to complexity of verification and a lack of tools and procedures to make comparison easy. Verification of an algorithm should not only give correctness proof, but also better understanding of an algorithm. If the verification is based on small step program refinement, it can become simple enough to be demonstrated within the university-level computer science curriculum. In this paper we demonstrate this and give a formal analysis of two well known algorithms (Selection Sort and Heap Sort) using proof assistant Isabelle/HOL and program refinement techniques.
[http://afp.sourceforge.net/entries/Selection_Heap_Sort.shtml]
Cheers,
Gerwin
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