Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics: 15th International Conference, TPHOLs 2002 Hampton, VA, USA, August 20-23, 2002 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2410, Band 2410)

awidespectrumofareasintheoreticalcomputerscience,formalmethods,and softwareengineering. ThevenueoftheTPHOLsconferencetraditionallychangescontinenteach yearinordertomaximizethelikelihoodthatresearchersfromallovertheworld willattend. Startingin1993,theproceedingsofTPHOLsanditspredecessor workshopshavebeenpublishedinthefollowingvolumesoftheSpringer-Verlag LectureNotesinComputerScienceseries: 1993(Canada) 780 1998(Australia)1479 1994(Malta) 859 1999(France) 1690 1995(USA) 971 2000(USA) 1869 1996(Finland)1125 2001(UK) 2152 1997(USA) 1275 VI Preface The2002conferencewasorganizedbyateamfromNASALangleyResearch Center,theICASEInstituteatLangleyResearchCenter,andConcordiaU- versity. FinancialsupportcamefromIntelCorporation. Thesupportofallthese organizationsisgratefullyacknowledged. August2002 V"?ctorA. Carreno ~ C"esarA. Muno ~z VII Organization TPHOLs2002isorganizedbyNASALangleyandICASEincooperationwith ConcordiaUniversity. Organizing Committee ConferenceChair: V"?ctorA. Carren~o(NASALangley) ProgramChair: C"esarA. Muno ~z(ICASE,NASALaRC) So?`eneTahar(ConcordiaUniversity) ProgramCommittee MarkAagaard(Waterloo) MichaelKohlhase(CMU&Saarland) DavidBasin(Freiburg) ThomasKropf(Bosch) V"?ctorCarren~o(NASALangley) TomMelham(Glasgow) Shiu-KaiChin(Syracuse) JStrotherMoore(Texas,Austin) PaulCurzon(Middlesex) C"esarMuno ~z(ICASE,NASALaRC) GillesDowek(INRIA) SamOwre(SRI) HaraldGanzinger(MPISaarbruc "ken) ChristinePaulin-Mohring(INRIA) GaneshGopalakrishnan(Utah) LawrencePaulson(Cambridge) JimGrundy(Intel) FrankPfenning(CMU) ElsaGunter(NJIT) KlausSchneider(Karlsruhe) JohnHarrison(Intel) HennySipma(Stanford) DougHowe(Carleton) KonradSlind(Utah) BartJacobs(Nijmegen) DonSyme(Microsoft) PaulJackson(Edinburgh) So?`eneTahar(Concordia) SaraKalvala(Warwick) WaiWong(HongKongBaptist) Additional Reviewers OtmaneAit-Mohamed AlfonsGeser HaraldRueß BehzadAkbarpour HanneGottliebsen LeonvanderTorre NancyDay MikeKishinevsky TomasUribe BenDiVito HansdeNivelle Jean-ChristopheFilli^atre AndrewPit