Correct Reasoning about Logic Programs

In this PhD project, we present an approach to the problem of determinacy inference in logic programs with cut, which treats cut uniformly and contextually. The overall aim is to develop a theoretical analysis, abstract it to a suitable domain and prove both the concrete analysis and the abstraction correct in a formal theorem prover (Coq). A crucial advantage of this approach, besides the guarantee of correctness, is the possibility of automatically extracting an implementation of the analysis.