Mechanising first-order temporal resolution

Information and Computation

Volumn 199, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 55-86

  Konev, Boris ^a   Degtyarev, Anatoli ^b   Dixon, Clare ^a   Fisher, Michael ^a   Hustadt, Ullrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clausal resolution; Monodic fragment; Temporal logics

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBOTICS; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

CLAUSAL RESOLUTIONS; MONODIC FRAGMENTS; RESOLUTION-STYLE CALCULUS; TEMPORAL LOGICS;

FORMAL LOGIC;

EID: 20144377876     PISSN: 08905401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ic.2004.10.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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