European collaboration on automated reasoning

Abstract

I provide a personal perspective of a European collaboration in the area of automated reasoning. I describe the birth and growth of this collaboration and give a snapshot of its current state. My involvement started with a two-way collaboration on inductive theorem proving between my group in Edinburgh and Siekmann's group in Saarbrücken, but this grew to broaden both in research area and geographical area. It focused on several series of workshops/conferences, research grants and bilateral lab visits, and established both new applications and collaborations with researchers outwith automated reasoning.

The History of the DReaM Group

“…These collaborations led to our involvement in the EU Calculemus Training Network, which brought together ATP researchers with Symbolic Computation ones, and spawned the Calculemus, Mathematical Knowledge Management and Intelligent Computer Mathematics conference series. I've written about this history of European ATP collaboration in more detail in [10].…”

“…The aim is to move the wave-fronts up through the levels and, ideally, to remove them altogether, so that the given appears as an unannotated sub-expression of the final sub-goal 10 . The given can then be used to complete the proof.…”