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This article is the eleventh of a series of articles discussing various open research problems in automated reasoning. Here we focus on finding criteria for guaranteeing the existence of a complete set of reductions. We include a suggestion for evaluating a proposed solution to this research problem.
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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-31-109-Eng-38.
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Wos, L. The problem of guaranteeing the existence of a complete set of reductions. J Autom Reasoning 5, 399–401 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00248325
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00248325