Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

2020

DOI

10.5281/zenodo.3653388

Publication Title

Proceedings of the 28th International Meshing Roundtable

Pages

148-158

Conference Name

28th International Meshing Roundtable (IMR), October 14-17, 2019, Buffalo, New York

Abstract

Formal methods allow for building correct-by-construction software with provable guarantees. The formal development presented here resulted in certified executable functions for mesh generation. The term certified means that their correctness is established via an artifact, or certificate, which is a statement of these functions in a formal language along with the proofs of their correctness. The term is meaningful only when qualified by a specific set of properties that are proven. This manuscript elaborates on the precise statements of the properties being proven and their role in an implementation of a version of the Isosurface Stuffing algorithm by Labelle and Shewchuk. This work makes use of the Calculus of Inductive Constructions for defining executable functions, stating their properties, and proving these properties via a direct examination of these functions (the property of liveness). The certificate is made available for inspection and execution using the Coq proof assistant.

Rights

© 2019 Sandia National Laboratories and the Author.

This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License.

Comments

ISBN of proceedings: 978-1-7334890-0-3

Original Publication Citation

Chernikov, A. N. (2020). Certified functions for mesh generation. In 28th International Meshing Roundtable (IMR), Buffalo, New York, USA (pp. 148-158). Sandia National Laboratories. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3653388

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