Goal-Directed Proof Theory (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780792364733)

Goal Directed Proof Theory presents a uniform and coherent methodology for automated deduction in non-classical logics, the relevance of which to computer science is now widely acknowledged. The methodology is based on goal-directed provability. It is a generalization of the logic programming style of deduction, and it is particularly favourable for proof search. The methodology is applied for the first time in a uniform way to a wide range of non-classical systems, covering intuitionistic, intermediate, modal and substructural logics. The book can also be used as an introduction to these logical systems form a procedural perspective.
Readership: Computer scientists, mathematicians and philosophers, and anyone interested in the automation of reasoning based on non-classical logics. The book is suitable for self study, its only prerequisite being some elementary knowledge of logic and proof theory.

Author: Dov M. Gabbay,N. Olivetti
ISBN-10: 0792364732
ISBN-13: 9780792364733
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 08/31/2000
Pages: 268
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.72h x 6.52w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 03/01/2001 pg. 17