Linear clause generation by Tableaux and DAGs

dc.contributor.authorKovásznai, Gergely
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-04T09:45:37Z
dc.date.available2024-09-04T09:45:37Z
dc.date.issued2007-06-01
dc.description.abstractClause generation is a preliminary step in theorem proving since most of the state-of-the-art theorem proving methods act on clause sets. Several clause generating algorithms are known. Most of them rewrite a formula according to well-known logical equivalences, thus they are quite complicated and produce not very understandable information on their functioning for humans. There are other methods that can be considered as ones based on tableaux, but only in propositional logic. In this paper, we propose a new method for clause generation in first-order logic. Since it inherits rules from analytic tableaux, analytic dual tableaux, and free-variable tableaux, this method is called clause generating tableaux (CGT). All of the known clause generating algorithms are exponential, so is CGT. However, by switching to directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) from trees, we propose a linear CGT method. Another advantageous feature is the detection of valid clauses only by the closing of CGT branches. Last but not least, CGT generates a graph as output, which is visual and easy-to-understand. Thus, CGT can also be used in teaching logic and theorem proving.en
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dc.identifier.citationTeaching Mathematics and Computer Science, Vol. 5 No. 1 (2007) , 109-118
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.5485/TMCS.2007.0147
dc.identifier.eissn2676-8364
dc.identifier.issn1589-7389
dc.identifier.issue1
dc.identifier.jatitleTeach. Math. Comp. Sci.
dc.identifier.jtitleTeaching Mathematics and Computer Science
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2437/379600
dc.identifier.volume5
dc.languageen
dc.relationhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/tmcs/article/view/14790
dc.rights.accessOpen Access
dc.rights.ownerGergely Kovásznai
dc.subjectdiscrete mathematicsen
dc.subjectlogicen
dc.subjectgraph theoryen
dc.subjectproof methodsen
dc.subjectartificial intelligence (theorem proving)en
dc.titleLinear clause generation by Tableaux and DAGsen
dc.typefolyóiratcikkhu
dc.typearticleen
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