Publisher's Synopsis
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics, TPHOLs 2002, held in Hampton, VA, USA in August 2002.;The 20 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions.;All current issues in HOL theorem proving and formal verification of software and hardware systems are addressed.;Among the HOL theorem proving systems evaluated are Isabelle/HOL, Isabelle/Isar, and Coq.