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Abstract
Graph neural networks have proven their effectiveness across a wide spectrum of graph-based tasks. Despite their successes, they share the same limitations as other deep learning architectures and pose additional challenges for their formal verification. To overcome these problems, we proposed a specification language, , that can be used to program graph neural networks. This language has been implemented in a Python library called libmg that handles the definition, compilation, visualization, and explanation of graph neural network models. We illustrate its usage by showing how it was used to implement a Computation Tree Logic model checker in our previous work, and evaluate its performance on the benchmarks of the Model Checking Contest. In the future, we plan to use to further investigate the issues of explainability and verification of graph neural networks.
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Science of Computer Programming is dedicated to the distribution of research results in the areas of software systems development, use and maintenance, including the software aspects of hardware design.
The journal has a wide scope ranging from the many facets of methodological foundations to the details of technical issues andthe aspects of industrial practice.
The subjects of interest to SCP cover the entire spectrum of methods for the entire life cycle of software systems, including
• Requirements, specification, design, validation, verification, coding, testing, maintenance, metrics and renovation of software;
• Design, implementation and evaluation of programming languages;
• Programming environments, development tools, visualisation and animation;
• Management of the development process;
• Human factors in software, software for social interaction, software for social computing;
• Cyber physical systems, and software for the interaction between the physical and the machine;
• Software aspects of infrastructure services, system administration, and network management.