@proceedings {CominiGL00a,
	title = {Logic programs as specifications in the inductive verification of logic programs},
	journal = {Declarative Programming {\textendash} Selected Papers from AGP 2000},
	volume = {48},
	year = {2001},
	note = {Available at URL: {\href{http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/entcs/volume48.html} {\texttt{http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/entcs/volume48.html}}}},
	pages = {1{\textendash}16},
	publisher = {Elsevier Science Publishers},
	abstract = {n this paper we define a new verification method based on an assertion language able to express properties defined by the user through a logic program. We first apply the verification framework defined in [CominiGLV99] to derive sufficient inductive conditions to prove partial correctness. Then we show how the resulting conditions can be proved using program transformation techniques.},
	keywords = {Abstract Interpretation, Inductive Verification, Transformation of logic programs},
	author = {Marco Comini and Roberta Gori and Giorgio Levi},
	editor = {Agostino Dovier and Maria Chiara Meo and Omicini, A.}
}
@article {CominiLM96,
	title = {A Theory of Observables for Logic Programs},
	journal = {Information and Computation},
	volume = {169},
	year = {2001},
	pages = {23{\textendash}80},
	publisher = {Academic Press},
	address = {New York},
	abstract = {We define a semantic framework to reason about properties of abstractions of SLD-derivations. The framework allows us to address problems such as the relation between the (top-down) operational semantics and the (bottom-up) denotational semantics, the existence of a denotation for a set of definite clauses and their properties (compositionality w.r.t. various syntactic operators, correctness, minimality and precision). Using abstract interpretation techniques to model abstraction allows us to state very simple conditions on the observables which guarantee the validity of several general theorems.},
	keywords = {Abstract Interpretation, Compositionality, Logic Programming, Semantics, SLD-derivations},
	author = {Marco Comini and Giorgio Levi and Maria Chiara Meo}
}
@proceedings {CominiLMV96,
	title = {Proving properties of Logic Programs by Abstract Diagnosis},
	journal = {Proceedings of Analysis and Verification of Multiple-Agent Languages, 5th LOMAPS Workshop (LOMAPS{\textquoteright}96)},
	volume = {1192},
	year = {1996},
	pages = {22{\textendash}50},
	publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
	address = {Berlin},
	abstract = {We show how declarative diagnosis techniques can be extended to cope with verification of operational properties, such as computed answers, and of abstract properties, such as types and groundness dependencies. The extension is achieved by using a simple semantic framework, based on abstract interpretation. The resulting technique (abstract diagnosis) leads to elegant bottom-up and top-down verification methods, which do not require to determine the symptoms in advance, and which are effective in the case of abstract properties described by finite domains.},
	keywords = {Abstract Diagnosis, Abstract Interpretation, Declarative Debugging, Inductive Verification, Logic Programming, Semantics},
	author = {Marco Comini and Giorgio Levi and Maria Chiara Meo and Vitiello, G.},
	editor = {Dams, M.}
}
