Annual Report 2010 - Fachgruppe Informatik an der RWTH Aachen ...

Research Projects
AProVE: Automated Program Verification Environment
J. Giesl, M. Brockschmidt, F. Emmes, C. Fuhs, C. Otto, M. Plücker, T. Ströder
We are developing a verification environment which allows a fast and easy implementation of
new approaches and techniques for program verification. In this way, their practical
applicability can be evaluated and experiments can be performed to develop heuristics which
increase their degree of automation. The system is designed in a modular way such that the
implemented techniques can be extended and modified easily.
Our verification framework is also applicable for teaching purposes in courses on formal methods,
term rewriting, or program verification. The tool is written in Java and verification can
be performed both in fully automated or interactive mode via a graphical user interface.
In particular, we design and implement a powerful automated termination prover within our
system AProVE. Experiments on large benchmarks and AProVE's success at the annual International
Competition of Termination Tools show that our system is currently among the most
powerful termination provers available. The system can be obtained from
http://aprove.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/
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