Section: Software

Bedwyr

Participants : Kaustuv Chaudhuri, Quentin Heath, Dale Miller [correspondant] .

During 2011, our close colleagues Alwen Tui (Australian National University) and David Baelde (INRIA team Proval) have made some improvements to the Bedwyr system. In the case of Tui, he made these changes in order to build SPEC, a model checker for the spi-calculus, on top of Bedwyr.

Starting in September, Quentin Heath has joined the team as a technical staff member. He is currently working on the Bedwyr code so that it can share files with the Abella system. These two provers work within a logic that is essentially the same: Heath is working to ensure that the concrete syntax and static semantics for the logical expressions on which they work is also the same. Thus, we expect to have our model checker (Bedwyr) and interactive theorem prover (Abella) share theories and proofs.

The work of Heath is being done in the context of the BATT ADJ project funded by INRIA. The boarder goals of the BATT project is to get four software systems (Bedwyr, Abella, Tac, and Teyjus) to inter-operate.

See also the web page http://slimmer.gforge.inria.fr/bedwyr/ .