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System Description: Interactive Proof Critics in XBarnacle

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Automated Deduction - CADE-17 (CADE 2000)

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Proof critics [2] extend the power of a theorem prover by, for example, allowing lemmas to be postulated and proved in the course of a proof. However, extending the automated theorem prover CLAM by adding critics also increases the search space. XBarnacle [5] was developed to make the process of interacting with a semi-automatic theorem prover more tractable for the non-expert user. We have now substantially amplified and extended XBarnacle so that it makes the work of expert users more efficient as they interact with proof critics. Of course, we have also made cosmetic improvements to aid navigability and to bridge the gulf of evaluation [1] which proves such an obstacle in making theorem provers more accessible, and even their expert users more efficient.

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Jackson, M., Lowe, H. (2000). System Description: Interactive Proof Critics in XBarnacle. In: McAllester, D. (eds) Automated Deduction - CADE-17. CADE 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1831. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10721959_41

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