{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Sub-problem Finder and Instance Checker: Two Cooperating Preprocessors for Theorem Provers","authors":[{"name":"Dennis de Champeaux","slug":"dennis-de-champeaux","given":"Dennis","family":"de Champeaux","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"Two pre-processors for theorem provers are described, which when applicable, will lead to search space simplification. Both were implemented and integrated with an existing resolution type connection graph theorem prover. Examples are provided which confirm our claim of search space simplification. Key words and phrases: Theorem proving, pre-processing, search space simplification","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/45","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/0045.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/45.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/bibtex/45","volume":{"slug":"1979","title":"Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1979","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/","year":1979,"location":"Tokyo, Japan","dates":"August 20-23, 1979","editors":"Bruce G. Buchanan","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":null,"track":"","number":45,"pages":{"first":null,"last":null},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}