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General purpose proof plans

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Design and Implementation of Symbolic Computation Systems (DISCO 1993)

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One of the key problems in the design and implementation of automated reasoning systems is the specification of heuristics to control search. “Proof planning” has been developed as a powerful technique for declaratively specifying high-level proof strategies. This paper describes an extension to proof planning to allow for the specification of more general purpose plans.

This research was supported in part by a SERC Postdoctoral Fellowship. I am grateful to Renato Busatto-Neto for his feedback and for implementing several general purpose proof plans for normalisation. I would also like to thank Alan Bundy and all the other members of the Mathematical Reasoning Group.

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  1. Toby Walsh

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Walsh, T. (1993). General purpose proof plans. In: Miola, A. (eds) Design and Implementation of Symbolic Computation Systems. DISCO 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 722. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0013194

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