Resolution decision procedures

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The paper presents systematically investigation of the resolution method with respect to its potential as decision procedure and as a tool for a model building.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIt is well known that different types of resolution refinements (ordering strategies, hyperresolution and other) can be turned in to effective means for deciding satisfiability of certain classes of clause sets. This problem was investigated in the papers of H. Yoyner, S. Maslov, N. Zamov and other. The paper reviews some generalizations of their results.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe authors introduce a notion of nonliftable ordering and show than nonliftable orderings are complete for some classes, for example the class \(E^+\) and the class \(K\) of Maslov.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEAuthors investigate the potential of hyperresolution as decision procedure. And show that hyperresolution decides the class \(\text{BSH}^*\), i.e. this refinement of the resolution principle generates the finite set of clauses for all formulae from \(\text{BSH}^*\).NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEAnalogous result is valid for the classes PVD and OCCI and other.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThen authors discuss the problem of extracting Herbrand model from finite set of clauses which are obtained by hyperresolution for a satisfiable set of clauses. These results can be extended to modal logics and description logics.NEWLINENEWLINEFor the entire collection see [Zbl 0964.00020].




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