Event-B Theories

ProB has (limited) support for theories.

Currently supported are (examples refer to the theory project below):

• recursive datatypes (e.g. the List datatype)
• operators defined by direct definitions (e.g. operators in the BoolOps theory) or recursive definitions (e.g. operators in the List theory)
• special annotated operators (see below)

Axiomatically defined operators are not supported without additional annotations.

Download Theories

An example project with theories: media:theories2.zip

The project contains the following theories:

SUMandPRODUCT

Contains two operators SUM and PRODUCT which take a set of the type POW(T**INT) as argument (with T being a type variable) and return the sum (resp.) product of all element's integer value.

The operators are annotated such that ProB uses an extra implementation.

Seq

The theory of sequences provides operators for sequences that are defined by direct definitions, thus supported by ProB.

Real (unsupported)

A theory of real numbers, currently unsupported by ProB.

Natural

A theory of inductive naturals (defined by a constant zero and a successor function).

The mkinat operator is annotated such that ProB uses an explicit implementation.

List

A theory of lists that are either empty or have a head and a tail

FixPoint (not really supported)

The theory is defined by direct definitions but they usually get so complex that ProB cannot cope with them.

closure

The operator for transitive closures is supported by ProB.

The operator is annotated such that ProB uses an extra implementation.

Card (contains no operators or data types)

Contains theorem about set cardinalities.

BoolOps

Operators on Booleans (e.g. AND, OR) are defined by direct definitions and as such supported by ProB.

BinaryTree

Binary Trees are supported by ProB.

Tagging operators

Please note: The use of these tags is for experts only. Normally such annotations are delivered with a theory. If you think ProB should provide specific support for a theory, please contact us.

ProB has some extra support for certain operators. ProB expects an annotation to an operator that provides the information that it should use a specific implementation for an operator. Such tags are given in a .ptm file (ProB Theory Mapping). The file must have the same name as the theory.

For each annotated operator, the file contains a line of the form

operator Name internal {Tag}

where Name is the name of the operator in the theory and Tag is a ProB internal name.

Currently are the following tags supported (with T being an arbitrary type):