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JAIR is pleased to announce the publication of the following article:

Walsh, T. (1996)
  "A Divergence Critic for Inductive Proof", 
   Volume 4, pages 209-235.

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   Abstract: Inductive theorem provers often diverge. This paper
   describes a simple critic, a computer program which monitors the
   construction of inductive proofs attempting to identify diverging
   proof attempts. Divergence is recognized by means of a ``difference
   matching'' procedure. The critic then proposes lemmas and
   generalizations which ``ripple'' these differences away so that the
   proof can go through without divergence. The critic enables the
   theorem prover Spike to prove many theorems completely automatically
   from the definitions alone.

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