FTP in 2003 Main events of year 2003 concerning First-order Theorem Proving

In the domain of Automated Deduction, research on First-order Theorem Proving (FTP) is very active. This theme involves theorem proving in first-order classical logic, many-valued logics, and modal logics. This includes resolution, equational reasoning, term rewriting, model construction, constraint reasoning, unification, description logics, propositional logic, and specialized decision procedures. Another important interest in FTP is the definition of strategies and complexity of theorem proving procedures. The applications of FTP are numerous: first-order theorem provers can be defined for tackling problems in verification, artificial intelligence, mathematics or education.

This site presents the two major events concerning research on First-order Theorem Proving (FTP) in 2003.

The first event is the publication of the best results of 2003 in a special issue of the international journal JAR (Journal of Automated Reasoning, edited by Deepak Kapur, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers). All the information concerning the preparation of this special issue (call for papers, submission deadline, date of publication,...) can be found at the following web page: http://rewriting.loria.fr/FTP-2003/jar/ The reference to this special issue is: D. Kapur and L. Vigneron, editors. Special issue on First-Order Theorem Proving of the Journal of Automated Reasoning, Volume 33, Numbers 3-4, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., October 2004. ISSN: 0168-7433 (Paper) 1573-0670 (Online).

The second event is the fourth international workshop on First-order Theorem Proving that was held in Valencia, Spain, on June 12-14, 2003. This workshop has been one of the three main events of RDP'03, the Federated Conference on Rewriting, Deduction and Programming, together with RTA'2003 (the 14th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications) and TLCA'2003 (the 6th International Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications). All the information concerning this event can be found at the following web page: http://rewriting.loria.fr/FTP-2003/valencia/

For more information on the FTP workshop series: http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/conferences/FTP-WS/.