Mechanising shared configuration and diagnosis theories through constraint logic programming

AbstractConfiguration and diagnosis problem-solvers are commonly championed as successes of applied artificial intelligence techniques. A common problem is that problem-solvers typically encode task-specific representation assumptions and simplifications in their domain theories, hindering the reuse of the domain theories between the problem-solvers. While model-based reasoning techniques have been shown to provide an interesting approach to sharing component and device specifications, their respective mechanisations are generally too inefficient. We show how constraint logic programming languages provide a flexible environment in which constraint-based specifications can be effectively shared and efficiently mechanised by exploiting constraint solving and propagation techniques tightly integrated with the backtracking search mechanism of logic programming languages. A component specification language is presented and the mappings from the language to the constraint system and strategies for guiding the search are defined for the respective problem-solvers

Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design – FMCAD 2021

The Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD) is an annual conference on the theory and applications of formal methods in hardware and system verification. FMCAD provides a leading forum to researchers in academia and industry for presenting and discussing groundbreaking methods, technologies, theoretical results, and tools for reasoning formally about computing systems. FMCAD covers formal aspects of computer-aided system design including verification, specification, synthesis, and testing