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This article is the twenty-third of a series of articles discussing various open research problems in automated reasoning. The problem proposed for research asks one to find criteria for deciding which e1uality unit clauses to adjoin with regard to CPU time and may affect refutation completeness. For evaluating a proposed solution to this research problem, we suggest problems from mathematics, logic, circuit design, program verification, and the world of puzzles.
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This work was supported by the Applied Mathematical Sciences subprogram of the Office of Energy Research, U.S. Department of Energy, under Contract W
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Wos, L. The problem of demodulator adjunction. J Autom Reasoning 9, 289–290 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00245464
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00245464