Automating meta-theory creation and system extension:

Abstract: "In this paper we describe a first experiment with a new approach for building theorem provers that can formalize themselves, reason about themselves, and safely extend themselves with new inference procedures. Within the GETFOL system we have built a pair of functions that operate be...

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Main Authors: Basin, David A. (Author), Giunchiglia, Fausto (Author), Traverso, Paolo (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh 1991
Series:University <Edinburgh> / Department of Artificial Intelligence: DAI research paper 543
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Summary:Abstract: "In this paper we describe a first experiment with a new approach for building theorem provers that can formalize themselves, reason about themselves, and safely extend themselves with new inference procedures. Within the GETFOL system we have built a pair of functions that operate between the system's implementation and a theory about this implementation. The first function lifts the actual inference rules to axioms that comprise a theory of GETFOL's inference capabilities. This allows us to turn the prover upon itself whereby we may formally reason about its inference rules and derive new rules. The second function flattens new rules back into the underlying system
This provides a novel means of safe system self-extension and an efficient way of executing derived rules.
Physical Description:11 S.

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