OTTER (Organized Techniques for Theorem-proving and Effective Research) 2.0 users guide.

摘要

OTTER (Organized Techniques for Theorem-proving and Effective Research) is a resolution-style theorem-proving program for first- order logic with equality. OTTER includes the inference rules binary resolution, hyperresolution, UR-resolution, and binary paramodulation. Some of its other abilities are conversion from first-order formulas to clauses, forward and back subsumption, factoring, weighting, answer literals, term ordering, forward and back demodulation, evaluable functions and predicates, and Knuth-Bendix completion. OTTER is coded in C, it is free, and it is portable to many different kinds of company. 16 refs., 2 tabs.