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1989
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Negation As Refutation
A refutation mechanism is introduced into logic programming, dual to the usual proof mechanism; then negation is treated via refutation. A four-valued logic is appropriate for the...
Melvin Fitting
SLP
1993
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13 years 7 months ago
Logic Program Specialisation With Deletion of Useless Clauses
In this paper we describe a method of programspecialisation and give an extended example of its application to specialisation of a refutation proof procedure for rst order logic. ...
D. Andre de Waal, John P. Gallagher
ICALP
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Mean-Payoff Games and Propositional Proofs
We associate a CNF-formula to every instance of the mean-payoff game problem in such a way that if the value of the game is non-negative the formula is satisfiable, and if the va...
Albert Atserias, Elitza N. Maneva
TCC
2007
Springer
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14 years 5 days ago
On the Necessity of Rewinding in Secure Multiparty Computation
We investigate whether security of multiparty computation in the information-theoretic setting implies their security under concurrent composition. We show that security in the sta...
Michael Backes, Jörn Müller-Quade, Domin...
RTA
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
On (Un)Soundness of Unravelings
We revisit (un)soundness of transformations of conditional into unconditional rewrite systems. The focus here is on so-called unravelings, the most simple and natural kind of such ...
Karl Gmeiner, Bernhard Gramlich, Felix Schernhamme...