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Author(s):
Sofronie-Stokkermans, Vioricadblp
Editor(s):
Furbach, Ulrich
Shankar, Natarajan		dblp
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Furbach, Ulrich
Shankar, Natarajan
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Sofronie-ijcar-06
Title, Booktitle
Title*:
Interpolation in local theory extensions
sofronie-ijcar-06.pdf (192.37 KB)
Booktitle*:
Proceedings of IJCAR 2006
Event, URLs
Conference URL::
http://ijcar06.uni-koblenz.de/
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Event Address*:
Seattle, USA
Language:
English
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Organization:
Event Start Date:
17 August 2006
Event End Date:
21 August 2006
Publisher
Name*:
Springer
URL:
http://www.springer-ny.com/
Address*:
New York
Type:
Vol, No, Year, pp.
Series:
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Volume:
4130
Number:
Month:
Pages:
235-250
Year*:
2006
VG Wort Pages:
25
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DOI:
Note, Abstract, ©
(LaTeX) Abstract:
Many problems in mathematics and computer science
(e.g. in verification, or when reasoning in and about
distributed databases) can be reduced to proving the
satisfiability of conjunctions of (ground) literals modulo
a background theory. This theory can, for instance, be the
extension of a base theory with additional functions or a
combination of theories.
It is therefore very important to find efficient methods for
checking the unsatisfiability of ground formulae in such
complex theories. However, it is often equally important
to find local causes for inconsistency. Such information is
usually provided by interpolants.

In this paper we study interpolation in local extensions of a
base theory ${\cal T}_0$. In such extensions efficient
hierarchical reasoning -- in which a prover for the base theory
is used as a black box -- is possible.
We identify situations in which it is possible to obtain
interpolants in a hierarchical manner, by using a prover
and a procedure for generating interpolants in ${\cal T}_0$
as `black-boxes' in order to generate interpolants in the
extension.

We provide several examples of such theories, and discuss
their applications in verification or knowledge representation.
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Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
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Programming Logics Group
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BibTeX Entry:
@INPROCEEDINGS{Sofronie-ijcar-06,
AUTHOR = {Sofronie-Stokkermans, Viorica},
 EDITOR = {Furbach, Ulrich and Shankar, Natarajan},
 TITLE = {Interpolation in local theory extensions},
 BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of IJCAR 2006},
 PUBLISHER = {Springer},
 YEAR = {2006},
 VOLUME = {4130},
 PAGES = {235--250},
 SERIES = {Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence},
 ADDRESS = {Seattle, USA},
}

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