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Alignment Completeness for Relational Hoare Logics by Nagasamudram, Ramana, Naumann, David A.

“…Relational Hoare logics (RHL) provide rules for reasoning about relations between programs…”
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A Logic for Locally Complete Abstract Interpretations by Bruni, Roberto, Giacobazzi, Roberto, Gori, Roberta, Ranzato, Francesco

“…We introduce the notion of local completeness in abstract interpretation and define a logic for proving both the correctness and incorrectness of some program specification…”
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NECTAR: non-interactive smart contract protocol using blockchain technology by Covaci, Alexandra, Madeo, Simone, Motylinski, Patrick, Vincent, Stéphane

“…Blockchain-driven technologies are considered disruptive because of the availability of dis-intermediated, censorship-resistant and tamper-proof digital…”
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Quantitative Monadic Second-Order Logic by Kreutzer, Stephan, Riveros, Cristian

“…While monadic second-order logic is a prominent logic for specifying languages of finite words, it lacks the power to compute quantitative properties, e.g. to count…”
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Program Equivalence is Coinductive by Pattinson, Dirk, Schröder, Lutz

“… Equational reasoning over comodels is known to be subtle. We identify a criterion on equational theories and classes of comodels that guarantees completeness…”
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Automatic Loop Invariant Generation for Data Dependence Analysis by Tabar, Asmae Heydari, Bubel, Richard, Hahnle, Reiner

“…Parallelization of programs relies on sound and precise analysis of data dependences in the code, specifically, when dealing with loops. State-of-art tools are…”
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Decidability and Complexity for Quiescent Consistency by Dongol, Brijesh, Hierons, Robert M.

“…Quiescent consistency is a notion of correctness for a concurrent object that gives meaning to the object's behaviours in quiescent states, i.e., states in…”
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Magnitude Monadic Logic over Words and the Use of Relative Internal Set Theory by Colcombet, Thomas

“…Cost monadic logic extends monadic second-order logic with the ability to measure the cardinality of sets and comes with decision procedures for boundedness related questions…”
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An Empirical Comparison of Dynamic Impact Analysis Algorithms by Orso, Alessandro, Apiwattanapong, Taweesup, Law, James, Rothermel, Gregg, Harrold, Mary Jean

“…Impact analysis determining the potential effects of changes on a software system plays an important role in software engineering tasks such as maintenance,…”
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Precise Modeling of Design Patterns in UML by Mak, Jeffrey K. H., Choy, Clifford S. T., Lun, Daniel P. K.

“…Prior research attempts to formalize the structure ofobject-oriented design patterns for a more precisespecification of design patterns. It also allows…”
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The Evaluation of Large, Complex UML Analysis and Design Models by Berenbach, Brian

“…This paper describes techniques for analyzing largeUML models. The first part of the paper describesheuristics and processes for creating semantically…”
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A Tool for Writing and Debugging Algebraic Specifications by Henkel, Johannes, Diwan, Amer

“…Despite their benefits, programmers rarely use formalspecifications, because they are difficult to write and theyrequire an up front investment in time. To…”
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A Quantum Interpretation of Bunched Logic & Quantum Separation Logic by Zhou, Li, Barthe, Gilles, Hsu, Justin, Ying, Mingsheng, Yu, Nengkun

“…We propose a model of the substructural logic of Bunched Implications (BI) that is suitable for reasoning about quantum states…”
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Some constructive variants of S4 with the finite model property by Balbiani, Philippe, Dieguez, Martin, Fernandez-Duque, David

“…The logics CS4 and IS4 are intuitionistic variants of the modal logic S4. Whether the finite model property holds for each of these logics has been a long-standing open problem…”
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Living without Beth and Craig: Definitions and Interpolants in the Guarded and Two-Variable Fragments by Jung, Jean Christoph, Wolter, Frank

“…In logics with the Craig interpolation property (CIP) the existence of an interpolant for an implication follows from the validity of the implication…”
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Lovász-Type Theorems and Game Comonads by Dawar, Anuj, Jakl, Tomas, Reggio, Luca

“…Lovász (1967) showed that two finite relational structures A and B are isomorphic if, and only if, the number of homomorphisms from C to A is the same as the…”
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A model building framework for answer set programming with external computations by EITER, THOMAS, FINK, MICHAEL, IANNI, GIOVAMBATTISTA, KRENNWALLNER, THOMAS, REDL, CHRISTOPH, SCHÜLLER, PETER

“…As software systems are getting increasingly connected, there is a need for equipping nonmonotonic logic programs with access to external sources that are possibly remote and may contain information…”
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On Logics and Homomorphism Closure by Bodirsky, Manuel, Feller, Thomas, Knauer, Simon, Rudolph, Sebastian

“…Predicate logic is the premier choice for specifying classes of relational structures…”
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Categorical models of Linear Logic with fixed points of formulas by Ehrhard, Thomas, Jafarrahmani, Farzad

“…We develop a categorical semantics of µLL, a version of propositional Linear Logic with least and greatest fixed points extending David Baelde's propositional…”
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Initial Limit Datalog: a New Extensible Class of Decidable Constrained Horn Clauses by Burn, Toby Cathcart, Ong, Luke, Ramsay, Steven, Wagner, Dominik

“… The class may be viewed as a generalisation to higher-order logic (with a simple restriction on types…”
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