A Confluent Connection Calculus

  • Authors:
  • Peter Baumgartner;Norbert Eisinger;Ulrich Furbach

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • CADE-16 Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Automated Deduction: Automated Deduction
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

This work is concerned with basic issues of the design of calculi and proof procedures for first-order connection methods and tableaux calculi. Proof procedures for these type of calculi developed so far suffer from not exploiting proof confluence, and very often unnecessarily rely on a heavily backtrack oriented control regime. As a new result, we present a variant of a connection calculus and prove its strong completeness. This enables the design of backtrack-free control regimes. To demonstrate that the underlying fairness condition is reasonably implementable we define an effective search strategy.