A Resolution Decision Procedure for the Guarded Fragment with Transitive Guards.

We show how well-known refinements of ordered resolution, in particular redundancy elimination and ordering constraints in combination with a selection function, can be used to obtain a decision procedure for the guarded fragment with transitive guards. Another contribution of the paper is a special...

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Main Authors: Kazakov, Y, de Nivelle, H
Format: Conference item
Published: Springer 2004
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Summary:We show how well-known refinements of ordered resolution, in particular redundancy elimination and ordering constraints in combination with a selection function, can be used to obtain a decision procedure for the guarded fragment with transitive guards. Another contribution of the paper is a special scheme notation, that allows to describe saturation strategies and show their correctness in a concise form