Automated Model Building

1. Auflage. Softcover version of original hardcover Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-90-481-6696-1
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 31, 341 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 546 g

Reihe: Applied Logic Series

On the history of the book: In the early 1990s several new methods and perspectives in au- mated deduction emerged. We just mention the superposition calculus, meta-term inference and schematization, deductive decision procedures, and automated model building. It was this last ?eld which brought the authors of this book together. In 1994 they met at the Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE-12) in Nancy and agreed upon the general point of view, that semantics and, in particular, construction of models should play a central role in the ?eld of automated deduction. In the following years the deduction groups of the laboratory LEIBNIZ at IMAG Grenoble and the University of Technology in Vienna organized several bilateral projects promoting this topic. This book emerged as a main result of this cooperation. The authors are aware of the fact, that the book does not cover all relevant methods of automated model building (also called model construction or model generation); instead the book focuses on deduction-based symbolic methods for the construction of Herbrand models developed in the last 12 years. Other methods of automated model building, in particular also ?nite model building, are mainly treated in the ?nal chapter; this chapter is less formal and detailed but gives a broader view on the topic and a comparison of di?erent approaches. Howtoreadthisbook: In the introduction we give an overview of automated deduction in a historical context, taking into account its relationship with the human views on formal and informal proofs.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Caferra, Ricardo

Peltier, Nicolas

Leitsch, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Grundlagen der Mathematik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Mathematische Logik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Preliminaries.- 3. Resolution-Based Methods.- 4. Constraint-Based Methods.- 5. Model Representation and Evaluation.- 6. Finite Model Building.- 7. Conclusion.- Notation Index.- References.