Récurrence noethérienne pour le raisonnement de premier ordre

National audienceLa récurrence nœthérienne est un des principes les plus généraux de raisonnement formel. Dans le cadre du raisonnement de premier ordre, nous présentons une classification de ses instances pouvant être partagées en instances basées sur des termes et des formules. Nous donnons un aperçu du raisonnement par récurrence nœthérienne basée sur des termes et sur des formules, puis nous établissons des relations entre eux. Enfin, nous présentons une méthodologie pour la certification du raisonnement basé sur des formules à l’aide de l’assistant de preuve Coq

Automated Certification of Implicit Induction Proofs

International audienceTheorem proving is crucial for the formal validation of properties about user specifications. With the help of the Coq proof assistant, we show how to certify properties about conditional specifications that are proved using automated proof techniques like those employed by the Spike prover, a rewrite-based implicit induction proof system. The certification methodology is based on a new representation of the implicit induction proofs for which the underlying induction principle is an instance of Noetherian induction governed by an induction ordering over equalities. We propose improvements of the certification process and show that the certification time is reasonable even for industrial-size applications. As a case study, we automatically prove and certify more than 40% of the lemmas needed for the validation of a conformance algorithm for the ABR protocol

Integrating Implicit Induction Proofs into Certified Proof Environments

The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.International audienceWe give evidence of the direct integration and automated checking of implicit induction-based proofs inside certified reasoning environments, as that provided by the Coq proof assistant. This is the first step of a long term project focused on 1) mechanically certifying implicit induction proofs generated by automated provers like Spike, and 2) narrowing the gap between automated and interactive proof techniques inside proof assistants such that multiple induction steps can be executed completely automatically and mutual induction can be treated more conveniently. Contrary to the current approaches of reconstructing implicit induction proofs into scripts based on explicit induction tactics that integrate the usual proof assistants, our checking methodology is simpler and fits better for automation. The underlying implicit induction principles are separated and validated independently from the proof scripts that consist in a bunch of one-to-one translations of implicit induction proof steps. The translated steps can be checked independently, too, so the validation process fits well for parallelisation and for the management of large proof scripts. Moreover, our approach is more general; any kind of implicit induction proof can be considered because the limitations imposed by the proof reconstruction techniques no longer exist. An implementation that integrates automatic translators for generating fully checkable Coq scripts from Spike proofs is reported