• DocumentCode
    2070884
  • Title

    A methodology for equational reasoning

  • Author

    Cleve, Jürgen ; Hutter, Dieter

  • Author_Institution
    German Res. Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbrucken, Germany
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    1994
  • fDate
    4-7 Jan. 1994
  • Firstpage
    569
  • Lastpage
    578
  • Abstract
    Presents a methodology to guide equational reasoning in a goal-directed way. Suggested by rippling methods developed in the field of inductive theorem proving, we use attributes of terms and heuristics to determine bridge lemmas, i.e. lemmas which have to be used during the proof of the theorem. Once we have found such a bridge lemma, we use the techniques of difference unification and rippling to enable its use.<>
  • Keywords
    equations; model-based reasoning; theorem proving; bridge lemmas; difference unification; equational reasoning methodology; goal-directed guidance; heuristics; inductive theorem proving; rippling methods; term attributes;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    System Sciences, 1994. Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Hawaii International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Wailea, HI, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-5090-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/HICSS.1994.323323
  • Filename
    323323