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Publications and source records attributed to Jorge Sousa Pinto.
We present a translation of While programs annotated with loop invariants into a dynamic single-assignment language with a dedicated iterating construct. We prove that the translation is sound and complete. This is a companion report to our paper Formalizing Single-assignment Program Verification: an Adaptation-complete Approach [6].
We propose a method for encoding iterators (and recursion operators in general) using interaction nets (INs). There are two main applications for this: the method can be used to obtain a visual nota- tion for functional programs; and it can be used to extend the existing translations of the lambda-calculus into INs to languages with recursive types.
This paper introduces a proposal for a Proof Carrying Code (PCC) architecture called Lissom. Started as a challenge for final year Computing students, Lissom was thought as a mean to prove to a sceptic community, and in particular to students, that formal verification tools can be put to practice in a realistic environment, and be used to solve complex and concrete problems. The attractiveness of the problems that PCC addresses has already brought students to show interest in this project.
This paper proposes new derivations of three well-known sorting algorithms, in their functional formulation. The approach we use is based on three main ingredients: first, the algorithms are derived from a simpler algorithm, i.e. the specification is already a solution to the problem (in this sense our derivations are program transformations). Secondly, a mixture of inductive and coinductive arguments are used in a uniform, algebraic style in our reasoning. Finally, the approach uses structural invariants so as to strengthen the equational reasoning with logical arguments that cannot be captured in the algebraic framework.