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EPSRC Reference: GR/M22031/01
Title: FORMATION OF METHODS FOR PROOF PLANNING IN MATHEMATICS
Principal Investigator: Kerber, Dr M
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Department: School of Computer Science
Organisation: University of Birmingham
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 07 September 1998 Ends: 06 February 2002 Value (£): 136,672
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Artificial Intelligence
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No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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In this research a large body of proof plan operators, so-called methods will be built up, the automatic adaptation of methods by meta-methods and the integration of the adaptation in the proof planning process will be investigated. The related task to adapt the problem formulation to the existing set of methods (rather than to adapt the methods to the problem formulation) will be investigated in parallel. Machine learning techniques will be applied to improve the behaviour of the planner, in particular the utility and accuracy of methods will be adapted automatically. This is particularly important for newly created methods. In order to constrain the search space 9 that is larger than in proof planning without meta-methods, since we allow for the creation of new methods) example oriented techniques will be investigated. The idea is to restrict the application (and creation) of methods to those cases that are compatible with the examples. The examples are either carefully selected as typical examples of an area or generated by a model generator.
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