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Proof automation is a common bottleneck for industrial adoption of formal methods. In Event-B, a significant proportion of proof obligations which require human interaction fall into a family called invariant preservation. In this paper we show that a rewriting technique called rippling can increase the automation of proofs in this family, and extend this technique by combining two existing approaches.
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Lin, Y., Bundy, A., Grov, G. (2012). The Use of Rippling to Automate Event-B Invariant Preservation Proofs. In: Goodloe, A.E., Person, S. (eds) NASA Formal Methods. NFM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7226. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28891-3_23
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