Abstract. The little theories method, in which mathematical reasoning is distributed across a network of theories, is a powerful technique for describing and analyzing complex syst...
Theorem provers based on model elimination have exhibited extremely high inference rates but have lacked a redundancy control mechanism such as subsumption. In this paper we repor...
In the "little theories" version of the axiomatic method, different portions of mathematics are developed in various different formal axiomatic theories. Axiomatic theor...
William M. Farmer, Joshua D. Guttman, F. Javier Th...
The COL institution (constructor-based observational logic) has been introduced as a formal framework to specify both generationand observation-oriented properties of software syst...
Abstract. The rank/activity restriction on binary resolution is introduced. It accepts only a single derivation tree from a large equivalence class of such trees. The equivalence c...