A system for distributed simplification-based theorem proving

Our project consists in the design and implementation of simplification-based strategies for parallel automated deduction, on a multi-processor with distributed memory. For equational logic the basic inference mechanism is an enhanced version of Unfailing Knuth-Bendix completion. Ordered resolution, ordered paramodulation and several contraction inference rules will be featuredfor first order logic with equality. We plan to develop a first prototype of our system, for equational logic, on an Intel hypercube. The extension to first order logic with equality will follow.