Automated Reasoning and Mathematics Essays in Memory of William

This Festschrift volume is published in memory of William W. McCune who passed away in 2011. William W. McCune was an accomplished computer scientist all around but especially a fantastic system builder and software engineer. The volume includes 13 full p

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Festschrift

Maria Paola Bonacina Mark E. Stickel (Eds.)

Automated Reasoning and Mathematics Essays in Memory of William W. McCune

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Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNAI Series Editors Randy Goebel University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Yuzuru Tanaka Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan Wolfgang Wahlster DFKI and Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

LNAI Founding Series Editor Joerg Siekmann DFKI and Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

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Maria Paola Bonacina Mark E. Stickel (Eds.)

Automated Reasoning and Mathematics Essays in Memory of William W. McCune

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Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Maria Paola Bonacina Università degli Studi di Verona, Dipartimento di Informatica Strada Le Grazie 15, 37134 Verona, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Mark E. Stickel SRI International, Artificial Intelligence Center 333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA E-mail: [email protected]

The picture of William W. McCune on page V was taken from the website http://www.cs.unm.edu/ mccune/photo.html. The cover illustration is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States license. Attribution: http://www.ForestWander.com

ISSN 0302-9743 e-ISSN 1611-3349 ISBN 978-3-642-36674-1 e-ISBN 978-3-642-36675-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-36675-8 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2013932090 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.3, F.4.1-2, F.3.1 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in ist current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Scientific Publishing Services, Chennai, India Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

William W. McCune (1953–2011)

Preface

In Memory of William W. McCune (1953–2011) This volume is a tribute to the memory of William (Bill) McCune, whose sudden death on May 4, 2011, left the field of automated reasoning deprived