Introduction to the special issue on Verification and Computational Logic

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The past decade has seen dramatic growth in the application of model checking techniques to the validation and verification of correctness properties of hardware, and more recently software systems. Recently, there has been increasing interest in applying logic programming techniques to model checking in particular and verification in general. For example, table-based logic programming can be used as an efficient means of performing explicit model checking. Other research has successfully exploited set-based logic program analysis, constraint logic programming, and logic program transformation techniques to verify systems.