Automated Theorem Proving

There are many kinds of books on formal logic. Some have philosophers as their intended audience, some mathematicians, some computer scien­ tists. Although there is a common core to all such books, they will be very different in emphasis, methods, and even appearance.

The SIXTH CONFERENCE ON AUTOMATED DEDUCTION, held on June 7-9, 1982, at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, included the resentation of 23 papers selected by the program committee, a keynote address by Lawrence Wos, and an invited talk by John McCarthy (the latter not included in this volume). The conference is the primary international forum for reporting research in all aspects of automated deduction. As such the conference addresses such issues as the design and implementation of (semi) automated theorem proving systems, experimentation with theorem provers, the capability and efficiency of various representations and control structures for automated deduction, and domains of application for automated deduction. Authors presenting papers at this conference come from Canada, France, Israel, Poland, the United Kingdom, the United States and West Germany…