Skolem Machines

  • Authors:
  • John Fisher;Marc Bezem

  • Affiliations:
  • (Correspd.) Department of Computer Science, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California, USA. jrfisher@csupomona.edu;Department of Computer Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. bezem@ii.uib.no

  • Venue:
  • Fundamenta Informaticae - Machines, Computations and Universality, Part I
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The Skolem machine is a Turing-complete machine model where the instructions are first-order formulas of a specific form. We introduce Skolem machines and prove their logical correctness and completeness. Skolem machines compute queries for the Geolog language, a rich fragment of first-order logic. The concepts of Geolog trees and complete Geolog trees are defined, and these tree concepts are used to show logical correctness and completeness of Skolem machine computations. The universality of Skolem machine computations is demonstrated. Lastly, the paper outlines implementation design issues using an abstract machine model approach.