Structured formal development in Isabelle
Nordic Journal of Computing - Selected papers of the 17th nordic workshop on programming theory (NWPT'05), October 19-21, 2005
Preliminary explorations in specifying and validating entity-relationship models in PVS
Proceedings of the second workshop on Automated formal methods
Model checking for the practical verificationist: a user's perspective on SAL
Proceedings of the second workshop on Automated formal methods
Validation of GCC optimizers through trace generation
Software—Practice & Experience
A unified framework and a transparent name-space for the Coq module system
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Modules and Libraries for Proof Assistants
Quotients revisited for Isabelle/HOL
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
A design structure for higher order quotients
TPHOLs'05 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics
Axiomatic constructor classes in Isabelle/HOLCF
TPHOLs'05 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics
Advanced Lectures on Software Engineering
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The purpose of this task was to provide a mechanism for theory interpretations in PVS so that it is possible to demonstrate the consistency of a theory by exhibiting an interpretation that validates the axioms. The mechanization makes it possible to show that one collection of theories is correctly interpreted by another collection of theories under a user-specified interpretation for the uninterpreted types and constants. A theory instance is generated and imported, while the axiom instances are generated as proof obligations to ensure that the interpretation is valid. Interpretations can be used to show that an implementation is a correct refinement of a specification, that an axiomatically defined specification is consistent, or that a axiomatically defined specification captures its intended models. In addition, the theory parameter mechanism has been extended with a notion of theory as parameter so that a theory instance can be given as an actual parameter to an imported theory. Theory interpretations can thus be used to refine an abstract specification or to demonstrate the consistency of an axiomatic theory. In this report we describe the mechanism in detail. This extension is a part of PVS version 3.0, which will be publicly released in mid-2001.