Section: Research Program

Interoperability

Using a single prover to check proofs coming from different provers naturally leads to investigate how these proofs can interact one with another. This issue is of prime importance because developments in proof systems are getting bigger and, unlike other communities in computer science, the proof checking community has given little effort in the direction of standardization and interoperability.

For each proof, independently of the system in which it has been developed, we should be able to identify the systems in which it can be expressed. For instance, we have shown that many proofs developed in the Matita prover did not use the full strength of the logic of Matita and could be exported, for instance, to the systems of the HOL family, that are based on a weaker logic.