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Semantic Guidance for Saturation Provers

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Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation (AISC 2006)

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We use finite interpretations to guide searches in first-order and equational theorem provers. The interpretations are carefully chosen and based on expert knowledge of the problem area of the conjecture. The method has been implemented in the Prover9 system, and equational examples are given the areas of lattice theory, Boolean algebras, and modular ortholattices.

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  1. Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA

    William McCune

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  1. Institut für Algorithmen und Kognitive Systeme, Universität Karlsruhe, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Jacques Calmet

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Tsukuba, 305-8573, Tsukuba, Japan

    Tetsuo Ida

  3. LMIB – SKLSDE – School of Science, Beihang University, 100083, Beijing, China

    Dongming Wang

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McCune, W. (2006). Semantic Guidance for Saturation Provers. In: Calmet, J., Ida, T., Wang, D. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation. AISC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4120. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11856290_4

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