standardprover

Standardprover is a software framework designed for automated reasoning and formal proof construction. It provides a standardized, interoperable environment for encoding logical problems, applying proof strategies, and validating results across different theorem proving tools. The goal is to smooth collaboration among researchers and to facilitate reproducible benchmarking.

The architecture typically comprises a frontend parser for a common input language, a core proving engine, a proof checker, and interfaces for exporting proofs to other formats. The frontend accepts standard logical formalisms used in automated proving, such as first-order logic with equality. The engine offers configurable proof strategies and may support pluggable backends for different inference methods. A dedicated proof checker validates the correctness of derived conclusions, enabling independent verification of results.

Portability and interoperability are central design goals. The framework is intended to run on multiple platforms and to interoperate with other provers and verification systems through adapters and translation layers. It provides debugging and profiling tools to aid researchers in measuring performance and behavior of proving strategies.

Applications include benchmarking automated theorem provers, formalizing mathematical theories, educational use in courses on logic and formal methods, and verification tasks in software and hardware development. The project is maintained by a community of researchers and practitioners and is typically hosted in public repositories with documentation outlining the standard input language, supported formats, and integration options.

See also: automated theorem proving, proof systems, TPTP, formal verification.