Reuse of Proofs by Meta-Methods
- This paper describes a declarative approach forencoding the plan operators in proof planning,the so-called methods. The notion of methodevolves from the much studied concept of a tac-tic and was first used by A. Bundy. Signific-ant deductive power has been achieved withthe planning approach towards automated de-duction; however, the procedural character ofthe tactic part of methods hinders mechanicalmodification. Although the strength of a proofplanning system largely depends on powerfulgeneral procedures which solve a large class ofproblems, mechanical or even automated modi-fication of methods is necessary, since methodsdesigned for a specific type of problems willnever be general enough. After introducing thegeneral framework, we exemplify the mechan-ical modification of methods via a particularmeta-method which modifies methods by trans-forming connectives to quantifiers.
Author: | Manfred Kerber, Xiaorong Huang |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:386-kluedo-2215 |
Document Type: | Preprint |
Language of publication: | English |
Year of Completion: | 1999 |
Year of first Publication: | 1999 |
Publishing Institution: | Technische Universität Kaiserslautern |
Date of the Publication (Server): | 2000/04/03 |
Faculties / Organisational entities: | Kaiserslautern - Fachbereich Informatik |
DDC-Cassification: | 0 Allgemeines, Informatik, Informationswissenschaft / 004 Informatik |
Licence (German): | Standard gemäß KLUEDO-Leitlinien vor dem 27.05.2011 |