As its title promises, this book provides foundations for software specification and formal
software development from the perspective of work on algebraic specification. It …

The large-scale and almost ubiquitous availability of information has become as much of a
curse as it is a blessing. The more information is available, the harder it is to locate any …

IMPS is an interactive mathematical proof system intended as a general-purpose tool for
formulating and applying mathematics in a familiar fashion. The logic of IMPS is based on a …

Symbolic and logic computation systems ranging from computer algebra systems to theorem
provers are finding their way into science, technology, mathematics and engineering. But …

Locales are a module system for managing theory hierarchies in a theorem prover through
theory interpretation. They are available for the theorem prover Isabelle. In this paper, their …

Abstract Mathematics is a ubiquitous foundation of science, technology, and engineering.
Specific areas of mathematics, such as numeric and symbolic computation or logics, enjoy …

One of the great problems of Mathematical Knowledge Management (MKM) systems is to
obtain access to a sufficiently large corpus of mathematical knowledge to allow the …

The notion of ontology today comes with two perspectives: one traditionally from philosophy
and one more recently from computer science. The philosophical perspective of ontology …

Early efforts to formalize mathematics in order to make parts of it more rigorous and to show
its consistency started with the codification of parts of logic. There was work on the logical …

This thesis describes substantial enhancements that were made to the software tools in the
Nuprl system that are used to interactively guide the production of formal proofs. Over …