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Instantiation Theory - On the Foundations of Automated Deduction (Paperback, 1991 ed.)
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Instantiation Theory - On the Foundations of Automated Deduction (Paperback, 1991 ed.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 518
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Instantiation Theory presents a new, general unification algorithm
that is of immediate use in building theorem provers and logic
programming systems. Instantiation theory is the study of
instantiation in an abstract context that is applicable to most
commonly studied logical formalisms. The volume begins with a
survey of general approaches to the study of instantiation, as
found in tree systems, order-sorted algebras, algebraic theories,
composita, and instantiation systems. A classification of
instantiation systems is given, based on properties of
substitutions, degree of type strictness, and well-foundedness of
terms. Equational theories and the use of typed variables are
studied in terms of quotient homomorphisms and embeddings,
respectively. Every instantiation system is a quotient system of a
subsystem of first-order term instantiation. The general
unification algorithm is developed as an application of the basic
theory. Its soundness is rigorously proved, and its completeness
and efficiency are verfied for certain classes of instantiation
systems. Appropriate applications of the algorithm include
unification of first-order terms, order-sorted terms, and
first-order formulas modulo alpha-conversion, as well as equational
unification using simple congruences.
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