A Tutorial Introduction to PVS

Abstract

This document provides an introductory example, a tutorial, and a compact reference to the PVS veri cation system. It is intended to provide enough information to get you started using PVS, and to help you appreciate the capabilities of the system and the purposes for which it is suitable. Dave Stringer-Calvert provided valuable comments on earlier versions of this tutorial, and also checked the speci cations and proofs appearing here. Preparation of this tutorial was partially funded by NASA Langley Research Center under Contract NAS1-18969, and by the Advanced Research Projects Agency through NASA Ames Research Center NASA-NAG-2-891 (Arpa order A721) to Stanford Unversity.