SPLASH 2026
Sun 4 - Fri 9 October 2026 Oakland, California, United States
co-located with SPLASH/ISSTA 2026

Decidable automation is a key feature of program verification tools, which makes them easier for non-expert developers to use and understand. Unfortunately, decidable fragments of logic are very restrictive, and not ideal for the expression of idiomatic programs. The decidable {\em Extended EPR} fragment, combined with an encoding technique called {\em relational abstraction}, has seen wide use for its ability to handle both quantifiers and uninterpreted functions. However, the complexity of the relational abstraction encoding, combined with its inherent incompleteness, still poses a significant obstacle to non-experts.

In this paper, we show that Extended EPR and relational abstraction can be deployed to achieve decidable, quantified verification within a familiar, principled domain: a higher-order, purely-functional programming language. We observe that, by defining the semantics of our language in terms of partial functions, we obtain a well-behaved, three-valued logic that matches the behavior of the relational abstraction encoding while hiding its complexity. We demonstrate that our prototype implementation can ergonomically replicate EPR-based program verification benchmarks and verify recursive programs on inductive datatypes.

Tue 6 Oct

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15:30 - 17:00
Refinement Types and Functional ProgrammingOOPSLA at East Hall 2
Chair(s): Nadia Polikarpova University of California at San Diego
15:30
18m
Talk
PLEX: Normalization for Refinement Types
OOPSLA
Alessio Ferrarini IMDEA Software Institute; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Niki Vazou IMDEA Software Institute, Wouter Swierstra Utrecht University
Link to publication DOI
15:48
18m
Talk
First-Class Refinement Types for Scala
OOPSLA
Link to publication DOI
16:06
18m
Talk
Effectively Propositional Higher-Order Functional Programming
OOPSLA
Nicholas V. Lewchenko University of Colorado Boulder, Kunha Kim University of Colorado Boulder, Bor-Yuh Evan Chang University of Colorado Boulder; Amazon, Gowtham Kaki University of Colorado Boulder
DOI
16:24
18m
Talk
DeCo: A Core Calculus for Incremental Functional Programming with Generic Data Types
OOPSLA
Timon Böhler TU Darmstadt, Tobias Reinhard TU Darmstadt, David Richter TU Darmstadt, Mira Mezini Technische Universität Darmstadt; ATHENE; hessian.AI
DOI Pre-print