My Life with an Automatic Theorem Prover

Jasmin Christian Blanchette

doi:10.29007/5b7w

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My Life with an Automatic Theorem Prover

7 pages•Published: February 23, 2016

Jasmin Christian Blanchette

Abstract

Sledgehammer integrates third-party automatic theorem provers in the proof
assistant Isabelle/HOL. In the seven years since its first release in 2007, it
has grown to become an essential part of most Isabelle users' workflow. Although
a lot of work has gone into tuning the system, the main reason for
Sledgehammer's success is the impressive power of the external provers,
especially E, SPASS, Vampire, and Z3. In this paper, I review
Vampire's strengths and weaknesses in this context and propose a few
directions for future work.

Keyphrases: automatic theorem provers, Isabelle/HOL, proof assistants, Vampire

In: Laura Kovács and Andrei Voronkov (editors). Proceedings of the 1st and 2nd Vampire Workshops, vol 38, pages 1--7

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/1Xsm
	https://doi.org/10.29007/5b7w

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{Vampire2014and2015:My_Life_with_an,
  author    = {Jasmin Christian Blanchette},
  title     = {My Life with an Automatic Theorem Prover},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st and 2nd Vampire Workshops},
  editor    = {Laura Kov\textbackslash{}'acs and Andrei Voronkov},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Computing},
  volume    = {38},
  pages     = {1--7},
  year      = {2016},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2398-7340},
  url       = {https://easychair.org/publications/paper/1Xsm},
  doi       = {10.29007/5b7w}}

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