SCAN

Literature


Abstracts of Publications about SCAN

In chronological order.

1. Quantifier Elimination in Second-Order Predicate Logic

by Dov M. Gabbay and Hans Jürgen Ohlbach, published in Proc. of KR 92 and in the South African Computer Journal, 1992. DVI, PostScript, BibTeX-Entry

An algorithm is presented which eliminates second-order quantifiers over predicate variables in formulae of type $\exists P_1 ,..., P_n\ F$ where $F$ is an arbitrary formula of first--order predicate logic. The resulting formula is equivalent to the original formula - if the algorithm terminates. The algorithm can for example be applied to do interpolation, to eliminate the second--order quantifiers in circumscription, to compute the correlations between structures and power structures, to compute semantic properties corresponding to Hilbert axioms in non classical logics and to compute model theoretic semantics for new logics.

2. Towards Automating Duality

by Chris Brink and Dov M. Gabbay and Hans Jürgen Ohlbach, forthcoming in a special issue. A longer version is available as Technical Report MPI-I-93-220, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany, 1993. DVI, PostScript, BibTeX-Entry

Dualities between different theories occur frequently inmathematics and logic --- between syntax and semantics of a logic, between structures and power structures, between relations and relational algebras, to name just a few. In this paper we show for the case of structures and power structures how corresponding properties of the two related structures can be computed fully automatically by means of quantifier elimination algorithms and predicate logic theorem provers. We illustrate the method with a large number of examples and we give enough technical hints to enable the reader who has access to the {\sc Otter} theorem prover to experiment herself.

3. SCAN and Systems of Conditional Logic

by Andreas Herzig, Technical Report MPI-I-96-2-007, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, September 1996. PostScript, BibTeX-Entry

The SCAN algorithm has been proposed for second order quantifier elimination. In particular it can be applied to find correspondence axioms for systems of modal logic. Up to now, what has been studied are systems with unary modal operators. 17 In this paper we study how SCAN can be applied to various systems of conditional logic, which are logical systems with binary modal operators.

4. SCAN-Elimination of Predicate Quantifiers

by Hans Jürgen Ohlbach. In McRobbie, M. A. and Slaney, J. K. (eds.), Automated Deduction: CADE-13. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1104, Springer, 161-165, 1996. HDVI, PostScript, BibTeX-Entry

5. Quantifier Elimination in Second-Order Predicate Logic

by Thorsten Engel. Diplomarbeit, Fachbereich Informatik, Univ. des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, October 1996. HDVI, PostScript, BibTeX-Entry

6. Quantifier Elimination Technics for Program Validation

by J.-P. Bodeveix and M. Filali. Technical Report IRIT-97-44-R, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, October 1997. PostScript
SCAN Home
Forms: Basic Form | Correspondences Form | Circumscription Form | Help
Documentation: Theory | Computing Correspondences | Computing Circumscription | The System | Conventions | Syntax | Literature

Maintained by schmidt@cs.man.ac.uk. Last modified: 7 Nov 2000
Copyright © 1995-2000 by Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik. All rights reserved.

Imprint | Data Protection