Proof simplification for model generation and its applications

  • Authors:
  • Miyuki Koshimura;Ryuzo Hasegawa

  • Affiliations:
  • Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan;Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan

  • Venue:
  • LPAR'00 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Logic for programming and automated reasoning
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Proof simplification eliminates unnecessary parts from a proof leaving only essential parts in a simplified proof. This paper gives a proof simplification procedure for model generation theorem proving and its applications to proof condensation, folding-up and completeness proofs for non-Horn magic sets. These indicate that proof simplification plays a useful role in theorem proving.