Inference Graphs: Combining Natural Deduction and Subsumption Inference in a Concurrent Reasoner

摘要

There are very few reasoners which combine natural deduction and subsumption reasoning, and there are none which do so while supporting concurrency. Inference Graphs are a graph-based inference mechanism using an expressive first–order logic, capable of subsumption and natural deduction reasoning using concurrency. Evaluation of concurrency characteristics on a combination natural deduction and subsumption reasoning problem has shown linear speedup with the number of processors.