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The Archive of Formal Proofs is a collection of proof libraries, examples, and larger scientific developments,
mechanically checked in the theorem prover Isabelle.
It is organized in the way of a scientific journal.
[Submissions](/submission) are refereed.

The archive repository is hosted on [Heptapod](https://foss.heptapod.net/isa-afp/) to provide easy free access to archive entries.
The entries are tested and maintained continuously against the current stable release of Isabelle.
Older versions of archive entries will remain available.

## Editors

The editors of the Archive of Formal Proofs are:

* [Manuel Eberl](http://pruvisto.org/), [University of Innsbruck](https://www.uibk.ac.at/)
* [Gerwin Klein](https://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kleing/), [Proofcraft](https://proofcraft.systems) & [UNSW Sydney](https://www.unsw.edu.au/)
* [Peter Lammich](https://people.utwente.nl/p.lammich),
    [University of Twente](https://www.utwente.nl/en/)
* [Andreas Lochbihler](http://www.andreas-lochbihler.de),
    [Digital Asset](https://www.digitalasset.com)
* [Tobias Nipkow](https://www.in.tum.de/~nipkow/), [Technical
  University of Munich](https://www.tum.de/en)
* [Larry Paulson](https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/lcp/), [University of Cambridge](https://www.cam.ac.uk/)
* [René Thiemann](http://cl-informatik.uibk.ac.at/users/thiemann/), [University of Innsbruck](https://www.uibk.ac.at/)
* [Dmitriy Traytel](https://traytel.bitbucket.io/), [University of Copenhagen](https://www.ku.dk/english/)

## Why

We aim to strengthen the community and to foster the development of formal proofs.

We hope that the Archive will provide:

* a resource of knowledge, examples, and libraries for users,
* a large and relevant test bed of theories for Isabelle developers, and
* a central, citable place for authors to publish their theories

We encourage authors of publications that contain Isabelle developments to make their theories available in the Archive of Formal Proofs and to refer to the archive entry in their publication. It makes it easier for referees to check the validity of theorems (all entries in the Archive are mechanically checked), it makes it easier for readers of the publication to understand details of your development, and it makes it easier to use and build on your work.

## License

All entries in the Archive of Formal Proofs are licensed under a [BSD-style License](https://isa-afp.org/LICENSE) or the [GNU LGPL](https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html). This means they are free to download, free to use, free to change, and free to redistribute with minimal restrictions.

The authors retain their full copyright on their original work, including their right to make the development available under another, additional license in the future.

## Website

This website is the result of a project from the School of Informatics at the [University of Edinburgh](https://www.ed.ac.uk) by:

* Carlin MacKenzie, [AIML](https://aiml.inf.ed.ac.uk)
* James Vaughan, [AIAI](https://web.inf.ed.ac.uk/aiai/)
* Jacques Fleuriot, [AIAI](https://web.inf.ed.ac.uk/aiai/)

Integration and maintenance by:

* [Fabian Huch](https://www21.in.tum.de/team/huch), [Technische Universität München](https://www.tum.de/)
