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OTTER (Organized Techniques for Theorem-proving and Effective Research) 2. 0 users guide

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6963716· OSTI ID:6963716

OTTER (Organized Techniques for Theorem-proving and Effective Research) is a resolution-style theorem-proving program for first- order logic with equality. OTTER includes the inference rules binary resolution, hyperresolution, UR-resolution, and binary paramodulation. Some of its other abilities are conversion from first-order formulas to clauses, forward and back subsumption, factoring, weighting, answer literals, term ordering, forward and back demodulation, evaluable functions and predicates, and Knuth-Bendix completion. OTTER is coded in C, it is free, and it is portable to many different kinds of company. 16 refs., 2 tabs.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Lab., IL (USA)
Sponsoring Organization:
DOE/ER
DOE Contract Number:
W-31109-ENG-38
OSTI ID:
6963716
Report Number(s):
ANL-90/9; ON: DE90007978
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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