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Automated reasoning

For example, in 2005, Microsoft started using verification technology in many of their internal projects and is planning to include a logical specification and checking language in their 2012 version of Visual C.


ACL2

ACL2 is designed to support automated reasoning in inductive logical theories, mostly for the purpose of software and hardware verification.

Pierre Geneves

After a post-doctorate at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 2007, he joined CNRS where he studied and contributed to the field of modal logics, like the modal mu-calculus, that he used for modeling query languages, and allow for the automated reasoning about programs that manipulate structured data.


see also

Abstract rewriting system

John Harrison, Handbook of Practical Logic and Automated Reasoning, Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-89957-4, chapter 4 "Equality".