Is It Reasonable to Employ Agents in Automated Theorem Proving?

Max Wisniewski, Christoph Benzmüller

2016

Abstract

Agent architectures and parallelization are, with a few exceptions, rarely to encounter in traditional automated theorem proving systems. This situation is motivating our ongoing work in the higher-order theorem prover Leo-III . In contrast to its predecessor – the well established prover LEO-II – and most other modern provers, Leo-III is designed from the very beginning for concurrent proof search. The prover features a multiagent blackboard architecture for reasoning agents to cooperate and to parallelize proof construction on the term, clause and search level.

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Wisniewski M. and Benzmüller C. (2016). Is It Reasonable to Employ Agents in Automated Theorem Proving? . In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-172-4, pages 281-286. DOI: 10.5220/0005824702810286


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@conference{icaart16,
author={Max Wisniewski and Christoph Benzmüller},
title={Is It Reasonable to Employ Agents in Automated Theorem Proving?},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2016},
pages={281-286},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005824702810286},
isbn={978-989-758-172-4},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - Is It Reasonable to Employ Agents in Automated Theorem Proving?
SN - 978-989-758-172-4
AU - Wisniewski M.
AU - Benzmüller C.
PY - 2016
SP - 281
EP - 286
DO - 10.5220/0005824702810286