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International ERCIM Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming

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Abstract Verification and Debugging of Constraint Logic Programs

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The technique of Abstract Interpretation [13] has allowed the development of sophisticated program analyses which are provably correct and practical. The semantic approximations produced by such analyses have been traditionally applied to optimization during program compilation. However, recently, novel and promising applications of semantic approximations have been proposed in the more general context of program verification and debugging [3],[10],[7].

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Hermenegildo, M., Puebla, G., Bueno, F., López-García, P. (2003). Abstract Verification and Debugging of Constraint Logic Programs. In: O’Sullivan, B. (eds) Recent Advances in Constraints. CologNet 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2627. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36607-5_1

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