Rippling, a heuristic for guiding inductive proofs:

Abstract: "We describe rippling: a tactic for the heuristic control of the key part of proofs by mathematical induction. This tactic significantly reduces the search for a proof of a wide variety of inductive theorems. We first present a basic version of rippling, followed by various extensions...

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Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh 1991
Series:University <Edinburgh> / Department of Artificial Intelligence: DAI research paper 567
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Summary:Abstract: "We describe rippling: a tactic for the heuristic control of the key part of proofs by mathematical induction. This tactic significantly reduces the search for a proof of a wide variety of inductive theorems. We first present a basic version of rippling, followed by various extensions which are necessary to capture larger classes of inductive proofs. Finally, we present a generalised form of rippling which embodies these extensions as special cases. We prove that generalised rippling always terminates, and we discuss the implementation of the tactic and its relation with other inductive proof search heuristics."
Physical Description:50 S.

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