Proceedings Workshop on Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice

TL;DR

This paper summarizes the 2024 Workshop on Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages, highlighting recent research, discussions on variable binding, reasoning techniques, and the event's contributions to the field of logical frameworks.

Contribution

It provides an overview of the workshop's discussions, accepted papers, and invited talks, emphasizing advancements in logical frameworks and meta-languages over the past three decades.

Findings

Discussion on variable binding techniques

Advances in inductive and co-inductive reasoning

Increased expressiveness of logical frameworks

Abstract

Logical frameworks and meta-languages form a common substrate for representing, implementing and reasoning about a wide variety of deductive systems of interest in logic and computer science. Their design, implementation and their use in reasoning tasks, ranging from the correctness of software to the properties of formal systems, have been the focus of considerable research over the last three decades. The LFMTP workshop brought together designers, implementors and practitioners to discuss various aspects impinging on the structure and utility of logical frameworks, including the treatment of variable binding, inductive and co-inductive reasoning techniques and the expressiveness and lucidity of the reasoning process. The 2024 instance of LFMTP was organized by Florian Rabe and Claudio Sacerdoti Coen in Tallinn, Estonia, the 8th July, as a satellite event of the FSCD conference. The workshop received 8 submissions, of which 6 were presented at the workshop. Of these, 2 were work-in-progress presentations, and 4 were accepted for these formal proceedings. Additionally, Carsten Sch\"urmann of IT University of Copenhagen gave an invited talk on Nominal State Separating Proofs.