Structured formal development in Isabelle

  • Authors:
  • Maksym Bortin;Einar Broch Johnsen;Christoph Lüth

  • Affiliations:
  • Universität Bremen, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Bremen, Germany;University of Oslo, Department of Informatics, Oslo, Norway;Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, Lab Bremen, Bremen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Nordic Journal of Computing - Selected papers of the 17th nordic workshop on programming theory (NWPT'05), October 19-21, 2005
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

General purpose theorem provers provide advanced facilities for proving properties about specifications, and may therefore be a valuable tool in formal program development. However, these provers generally lack many of the useful structuring mechanisms found in functional programming or specification languages. This paper presents a constructive approach to adding theory morphisms and parametrisation to theorem provers, while preserving the proof support and consistency of the prover. The approach is implemented in Isabelle and illustrated by examples of an algorithm design rule and of the modular development of computational effects for imperative language features based on monads.