Learning to program introduces a transformative way of thinking that impacts engineering, mathematics, and broader worldviews. Mastery of programming enhances skills across all modern engineering disciplines, emphasizing its vital role in professional development and problem-solving within various fields.
Computational logic is a fast-growing field with applications in artificial intelligence, constraint solving, and the design and verification of software and hardware systems. Written with graduate and advanced undergraduate students in mind, this textbook introduces computational logic from the foundations of first-order logic to state-of-the-art decision procedures for arithmetic, data structures, and combination theories. This textbook also presents a logical approach to engineering correct software. The increasing ubiquity of computers makes implementing correct systems more important than ever. Verification exercises develop the reader's facility in specifying and verifying software using logic. The treatment of verification concludes with an introduction to the static analysis of software, an important component of modern verification systems. For readers interested in learning more about computational logic, decision procedures, verification, and other areas of formal methods, the final chapter outlines courses of further study.
Decision Procedures with Applications to Verification
Focusing on computational logic, the textbook covers foundational concepts of first-order logic and advances to modern decision procedures for arithmetic and data structures. It emphasizes a logical methodology for developing correct software, making it a valuable resource for understanding both theoretical and practical aspects of computational logic in engineering.