A Prototype Generic Tool Supporting the Embedding of Formal Notations
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In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of a prototype tool designed to support the embedding of one formal notation within another. The tool is designed primarily to support the automatic embedding of specification notations such as Z or AMN into the notations of generic theorem provers such as HOL or PVS. It is written in Java , which enables novel features such as dynamic extensibility. There is a common intermediate form comprising a collection of classes called LIL (Logic Interface Language) permitting the clean separation of parsing (specification notation) from printing (theorem prover notation). The tool was constructed as part of the EPSRC project Tools Integration for Applied Formal Methods (grant GR/K83014).
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