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In a problem solving process, a step may not result in the expected progress or may not be applicable as expected. Hence, knowledge how to overcome and react to impasses and other failures is an important ingredient of successful mathematical problem solving. To employ such knowledge in a proving system requires a variety of behaviors and a flexible control. Multi-strategy proof planning is a knowledge-based theorem proving approach that provides a variety of strategies and knowledge-based guidance for search at different levels. This paper introduces reasoning about impasses as a natural ingredient of meta-reasoning at a strategic level and illustrates the use of knowledge about failure handling in the proof planner multi.
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Meier, A., Melis, E. (2006). Impasse-Driven Reasoning in Proof Planning. In: Kohlhase, M. (eds) Mathematical Knowledge Management. MKM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3863. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11618027_10
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