An up-to-date and comprehensive account of set-oriented symbolic manipulation and automated reasoning methods. This book will be of interest to graduates and researchers in theoretical computer science and computational logic and automated reasoning.

Inhalt

What is Computable Set Theory? * Logical Background * Axiomatic Views of Aggregates * Semantic Views of Aggregates * Sets for Problem Solving * Decision Problems and Some Solutions * Inference Techniques and Methods * Set/Hyperset Unification Algorithms * A Syllogistic Solitaire * Stratified Syllogistics * Quantitative Set Reasoning * Set Theory for Non-Classical Logics * Logic Programming With Sets * Syllogistic Tableaux