Title
Contradiction separation based dynamic multi-clause synergized automated deduction.
Abstract
Resolution as a famous rule of inference has played a key role in automated reasoning for over five decades. A number of variants and refinements of resolution have been also studied, essentially, they are all based on binary resolution, that is, the cutting rule of the complementary pair while every deduction involves only two clauses. In the present work, we consider an extension of binary resolution rule, which is proposed as a novel contradiction separation based inference rule for automated deduction, targeted for dynamic and multiple (two or more) clauses handling in a synergized way, while binary resolution is its special case. This contradiction separation based dynamic multi-clause synergized automated deduction theory is then proved to be sound and complete. The development of this new extension is motivated not only by our view to show that such a new rule of inference can be generic, but also by our wish that this inference rule could provide a basis for more efficient automated deduction algorithms and systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.ins.2018.04.086
Information Sciences
Keywords
Field
DocType
Propositional logic,First-order logic,Resolution,Automated deduction,Theorem proving,Contradiction separation,Dynamic multi-clause synergized deduction
Automated reasoning,Automated theorem proving,Theoretical computer science,Artificial intelligence,Rule of inference,Machine learning,Mathematics,Special case,Binary number,Contradiction
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
462
0020-0255
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
21
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yang Xu171183.57
Jun Liu241923.08
Shuwei Chen312112.14
Xiaomei Zhong4305.35
Xingxing He58413.90