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resolution method [2 records]

Record 1 1993-03-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Management Operations (General)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Opérations de la gestion (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 2 1986-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

The inference strategy used in logical systems to determine the truth of an assertion. This complex, but highly effective, method establishes the truth of an assertion by determining that a contradiction is encountered when one attempts to resolve clauses, one of which is a negation of the thesis one seeks to assert.

CONT

In computation, logical arguments are found to be true or false through the resolution method which is used on propositions ...

CONT

Using the resolution principle, we can prove theorems in a purely mechanical way from our axioms.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
DEF

Principe dû au mathématicien français Jacques Herbrand, repris et programmé par Alan Robinson, qui systématise le raisonnement par l'absurde : pour démontrer que le théorème p alors g s'applique, le principe de la résolution cherche à prouver que la proposition "p et non g" est contradictoire.

Spanish

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