6 Search Results for "Lööw, Andreas"

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2025.25
GOL in GOL in HOL: Verified Circuits in Conway’s Game of Life

Authors: Magnus O. Myreen and Mario Carneiro

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 352, 16th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2025)

Abstract
Conway’s Game of Life (GOL) is a cellular automaton that has captured the interest of hobbyists and mathematicians alike for more than 50 years. The Game of Life is Turing complete, and people have been building increasingly sophisticated constructions within GOL, such as 8-bit displays, Turing machines, and even an implementation of GOL itself. In this paper, we report on a project to build an implementation of GOL within GOL, via logic circuits, fully formally verified within the HOL4 theorem prover. This required a combination of interactive tactic proving, symbolic simulation, and semi-automated forward proof to assemble the components into an infinite circuit which can calculate the next step of the simulation while respecting signal propagation delays. The result is a verified "GOL in GOL compiler" which takes an initial GOL state and returns a mega-cell version of it that can be passed to off-the-shelf GOL simulators, such as Golly. We believe these techniques are also applicable to other cellular automata, as well as for hardware verification which takes into account both the physical configuration of components and wire delays.
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Magnus O. Myreen and Mario Carneiro. GOL in GOL in HOL: Verified Circuits in Conway’s Game of Life. In 16th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 352, pp. 25:1-25:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{myreen_et_al:LIPIcs.ITP.2025.25,
  author =	{Myreen, Magnus O. and Carneiro, Mario},
  title =	{{GOL in GOL in HOL: Verified Circuits in Conway’s Game of Life}},
  booktitle =	{16th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2025)},
  pages =	{25:1--25:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-396-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{352},
  editor =	{Forster, Yannick and Keller, Chantal},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2025.25},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-246230},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2025.25},
  annote =	{Keywords: Cellular automata, Higher-order logic, Interactive theorem proving}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.25
Compositional Symbolic Execution for Correctness and Incorrectness Reasoning

Authors: Andreas Lööw, Daniele Nantes-Sobrinho, Sacha-Élie Ayoun, Caroline Cronjäger, Petar Maksimović, and Philippa Gardner

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 313, 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)

Abstract
The introduction of separation logic has led to the development of symbolic execution techniques and tools that are (functionally) compositional with function specifications that can be used in broader calling contexts. Many of the compositional symbolic execution tools developed in academia and industry have been grounded on a formal foundation, but either the function specifications are not validated with respect to the underlying separation logic of the theory, or there is a large gulf between the theory and the implementation of the tool. We introduce a formal compositional symbolic execution engine which creates and uses function specifications from an underlying separation logic and provides a sound theoretical foundation for, and indeed was partially inspired by, the Gillian symbolic execution platform. This is achieved by providing an axiomatic interface which describes the properties of the consume and produce operations used in the engine to update compositionally the symbolic state, for example when calling function specifications. This consume-produce technique is used by VeriFast, Viper, and Gillian, but has not been previously characterised independently of the tool. As part of our result, we give consume and produce operations inspired by the Gillian implementation that satisfy the properties described by our axiomatic interface. A surprising property is that our engine semantics provides a common foundation for both correctness and incorrectness reasoning, with the difference in the underlying engine only amounting to the choice to use satisfiability or validity. We use this property to extend the Gillian platform, which previously only supported correctness reasoning, with incorrectness reasoning and automatic true bug-finding using incorrectness bi-abduction. We evaluate our new Gillian platform by using the Gillian instantiation to C. This instantiation is the first tool grounded on a common formal compositional symbolic execution engine to support both correctness and incorrectness reasoning.
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Andreas Lööw, Daniele Nantes-Sobrinho, Sacha-Élie Ayoun, Caroline Cronjäger, Petar Maksimović, and Philippa Gardner. Compositional Symbolic Execution for Correctness and Incorrectness Reasoning. In 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 313, pp. 25:1-25:28, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{loow_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.25,
  author =	{L\"{o}\"{o}w, Andreas and Nantes-Sobrinho, Daniele and Ayoun, Sacha-\'{E}lie and Cronj\"{a}ger, Caroline and Maksimovi\'{c}, Petar and Gardner, Philippa},
  title =	{{Compositional Symbolic Execution for Correctness and Incorrectness Reasoning}},
  booktitle =	{38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)},
  pages =	{25:1--25:28},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-341-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{313},
  editor =	{Aldrich, Jonathan and Salvaneschi, Guido},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.25},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-208741},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.25},
  annote =	{Keywords: separation logic, incorrectness logic, symbolic execution, bi-abduction}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.26
Matching Plans for Frame Inference in Compositional Reasoning

Authors: Andreas Lööw, Daniele Nantes-Sobrinho, Sacha-Élie Ayoun, Petar Maksimović, and Philippa Gardner

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 313, 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)

Abstract
The use of function specifications to reason about function calls and the manipulation of user-defined predicates are two essential ingredients of modern compositional verification tools based on separation logic. To execute these operations successfully, these tools must be able to solve the frame inference problem, that is, to understand which parts of the state are relevant for the operation at hand. We introduce matching plans, a concept that is used in the Gillian verification platform to automate frame inference efficiently. We extract matching plans and their automation machinery from the Gillian implementation and present them in a tool-agnostic way, making the Gillian approach available to the broader verification community as a verification-tool design pattern.
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Andreas Lööw, Daniele Nantes-Sobrinho, Sacha-Élie Ayoun, Petar Maksimović, and Philippa Gardner. Matching Plans for Frame Inference in Compositional Reasoning. In 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 313, pp. 26:1-26:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{loow_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.26,
  author =	{L\"{o}\"{o}w, Andreas and Nantes-Sobrinho, Daniele and Ayoun, Sacha-\'{E}lie and Maksimovi\'{c}, Petar and Gardner, Philippa},
  title =	{{Matching Plans for Frame Inference in Compositional Reasoning}},
  booktitle =	{38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)},
  pages =	{26:1--26:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-341-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{313},
  editor =	{Aldrich, Jonathan and Salvaneschi, Guido},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.26},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-208751},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.26},
  annote =	{Keywords: Compositional reasoning, separation logic, frame inference}
}
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Artifact
DOI: 10.4230/DARTS.10.2.13
Compositional Symbolic Execution for Correctness and Incorrectness Reasoning (Artifact)

Authors: Andreas Lööw, Daniele Nantes-Sobrinho, Sacha-Élie Ayoun, Caroline Cronjäger, Nat Karmios, Petar Maksimović, and Philippa Gardner

Published in: DARTS, Volume 10, Issue 2, Special Issue of the 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)

Abstract
This artifact is a companion to the paper "Compositional Symbolic Execution for Correctness and Incorrectness Reasoning". It contains the source code of the Gillian compositional symbolic execution (CSE) platform, in which we added the incorrectness reasoning capabilities, and the benchmarks used in the evaluation of the paper. It also contains a Haskell demonstrator CSE engine that directly implements the CSE engine inference rules presented in the paper.
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Andreas Lööw, Daniele Nantes-Sobrinho, Sacha-Élie Ayoun, Caroline Cronjäger, Nat Karmios, Petar Maksimović, and Philippa Gardner. Compositional Symbolic Execution for Correctness and Incorrectness Reasoning (Artifact). In Special Issue of the 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024). Dagstuhl Artifacts Series (DARTS), Volume 10, Issue 2, pp. 13:1-13:2, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@Article{loow_et_al:DARTS.10.2.13,
  author =	{L\"{o}\"{o}w, Andreas and Nantes-Sobrinho, Daniele and Ayoun, Sacha-\'{E}lie and Cronj\"{a}ger, Caroline and Karmios, Nat and Maksimovi\'{c}, Petar and Gardner, Philippa},
  title =	{{Compositional Symbolic Execution for Correctness and Incorrectness Reasoning (Artifact)}},
  pages =	{13:1--13:2},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Artifacts Series},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-342-3},
  ISSN =	{2509-8195},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{10},
  number =	{2},
  editor =	{L\"{o}\"{o}w, Andreas and Nantes-Sobrinho, Daniele and Ayoun, Sacha-\'{E}lie and Cronj\"{a}ger, Caroline and Karmios, Nat and Maksimovi\'{c}, Petar and Gardner, Philippa},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DARTS.10.2.13},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-209110},
  doi =		{10.4230/DARTS.10.2.13},
  annote =	{Keywords: separation logic, incorrectness logic, symbolic execution, bi-abduction}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2023.19
Exact Separation Logic: Towards Bridging the Gap Between Verification and Bug-Finding

Authors: Petar Maksimović, Caroline Cronjäger, Andreas Lööw, Julian Sutherland, and Philippa Gardner

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 263, 37th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2023)

Abstract
Over-approximating (OX) program logics, such as separation logic (SL), are used for verifying properties of heap-manipulating programs: all terminating behaviour is characterised, but established results and errors need not be reachable. OX function specifications are thus incompatible with true bug-finding supported by symbolic execution tools such as Pulse and Pulse-X. In contrast, under-approximating (UX) program logics, such as incorrectness separation logic, are used to find true results and bugs: established results and errors are reachable, but there is no mechanism for understanding if all terminating behaviour has been characterised. We introduce exact separation logic (ESL), which provides fully-verified function specifications compatible with both OX verification and UX true bug-funding: all terminating behaviour is characterised and all established results and errors are reachable. We prove soundness for ESL with mutually recursive functions, demonstrating, for the first time, function compositionality for a UX logic. We show that UX program logics require subtle definitions of internal and external function specifications compared with the familiar definitions of OX logics. We investigate the expressivity of ESL and, for the first time, explore the role of abstraction in UX reasoning by verifying abstract ESL specifications of various data-structure algorithms. In doing so, we highlight the difference between abstraction (hiding information) and over-approximation (losing information). Our findings demonstrate that abstraction cannot be used as freely in UX logics as in OX logics, but also that it should be feasible to use ESL to provide tractable function specifications for self-contained, critical code, which would then be used for both verification and true bug-finding.
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Petar Maksimović, Caroline Cronjäger, Andreas Lööw, Julian Sutherland, and Philippa Gardner. Exact Separation Logic: Towards Bridging the Gap Between Verification and Bug-Finding. In 37th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 263, pp. 19:1-19:27, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{maksimovic_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2023.19,
  author =	{Maksimovi\'{c}, Petar and Cronj\"{a}ger, Caroline and L\"{o}\"{o}w, Andreas and Sutherland, Julian and Gardner, Philippa},
  title =	{{Exact Separation Logic: Towards Bridging the Gap Between Verification and Bug-Finding}},
  booktitle =	{37th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2023)},
  pages =	{19:1--19:27},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-281-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{263},
  editor =	{Ali, Karim and Salvaneschi, Guido},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2023.19},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-182123},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2023.19},
  annote =	{Keywords: Separation logic, program correctness, program incorrectness, abstraction}
}
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Invited Paper
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2021.1
The CakeML Project’s Quest for Ever Stronger Correctness Theorems (Invited Paper)

Authors: Magnus O. Myreen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 193, 12th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2021)

Abstract
The CakeML project has developed a proof-producing code generation mechanism for the HOL4 theorem prover, a verified compiler for ML and, using these, a number of verified application programs that are proved correct down to the machine code that runs them (in some cases, even down to the underlying hardware). The purpose of this extended abstract is to tell the story of the project and to point curious readers to publications where they can read more about specific contributions.
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Magnus O. Myreen. The CakeML Project’s Quest for Ever Stronger Correctness Theorems (Invited Paper). In 12th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 193, pp. 1:1-1:10, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@InProceedings{myreen:LIPIcs.ITP.2021.1,
  author =	{Myreen, Magnus O.},
  title =	{{The CakeML Project’s Quest for Ever Stronger Correctness Theorems}},
  booktitle =	{12th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2021)},
  pages =	{1:1--1:10},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-188-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{193},
  editor =	{Cohen, Liron and Kaliszyk, Cezary},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2021.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-138963},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2021.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: Program verification, interactive theorem proving}
}
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