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Lecture 15 of 42
First-Order Logic: Resolution
Discussion: AI Applications 2 of 3
Wednesday, 27 September 2007
William H. Hsu
Department of Computing and Information Sciences, KSU
KSOL course page: http://snipurl.com/v9v3
Course web site: http://www.kddresearch.org/Courses/Fall-2007/CIS730
Instructor home page: http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~bhsu
Reading for Next Class:
Section 9.5 – 9.6, p. 295 - 310, Russell & Norvig 2nd edition
CIS 530 / 730: Artificial Intelligence
Wednesday. 26 Sep 2007
Computing & Information Sciences
Kansas State University
Lecture Outline
Reading for Next Class: Section 9.5 – 9.6, R&N 2e
Today
Resolution theorem proving
Prolog as related to resolution
Decidability of SAT, VALID
Recursive, Recursive Enumerable, and Co-RE languages
MP4 & 5 preparations
Friday
Logic programming in real life
Industrial-strength Prolog
Lead-in to MP4
Next Week
CIS 530 / 730: Artificial Intelligence
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Logical Agents:
Review
Adapted from slides by
S. Russell, UC Berkeley
CIS 530 / 730: Artificial Intelligence
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Example:
Backward Chaining
Adapted from slides by
S. Russell, UC Berkeley
CIS 530 / 730: Artificial Intelligence
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Backward Chaining
Question: How Does This Relate to Proof by Refutation?
Answer
Suppose ¬Query, For The Sake Of Contradiction (FTSOC)
Attempt to prove that KB ¬Query ⊢
CIS 530 / 730: Artificial Intelligence
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Resolution Inference Rule
Adapted from slides by
S. Russell, UC Berkeley
CIS 530 / 730: Artificial Intelligence
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Conjunctive Normal (aka Clausal) Form:
Conversion (Nilsson) and Mnemonic
Implications Out
Negations Out
Standardize Variables Apart
Existentials Out (Skolemize)
Universals Made Implicit
Distribute And Over Or (i.e., Disjunctions In)
Operators Out
Rename Variables
A Memonic for Star Trek: The Next Generation Fans
•Captain Picard:
•I’ll Notify Spock’s Eminent Underground Dissidents On Romulus
•I’ll Notify Sarek’s Eminent Underground Descendant On Romulus
Adapted from slides by S. Russell, UC Berkeley
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Skolemization
Adapted from slides by S. Russell, UC Berkeley
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Resolution Theorem Proving
Adapted from slides by S. Russell, UC Berkeley
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Example:
Resolution Proof
Adapted from slides by S. Russell, UC Berkeley
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Offline Exercise:
Read-and-Explain Pairs
For Class Participation (PS5)
With Your Assigned Partner(s)
Read: Chapter 10 R&N
By 13 Oct 2007
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Logic Programming vs. Imperative
Programming
Adapted from slides by S. Russell, UC Berkeley
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A Look Ahead:
Logic Programming as Horn Clause
Resolution
Adapted from slides by S. Russell, UC Berkeley
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A Look Ahead:
Logic Programming (Prolog) Examples
Adapted from slides by S. Russell, UC Berkeley
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Summary Points
From Propositional to First-Order Proofs
Generalized Modus Ponens
Resolution
Unification Problem
Roles in Computer Science
Type inference
Theorem proving
What do these have to do with each other?
Search Patterns
Forward chaining
Backward chaining
Fan-in, fan-out
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Terminology
From Propositional to First-Order Proofs
Generalized Modus Ponens
Resolution
Unification Problem
Most General Unifier (MGU)
Roles in Computer Science
Type inference
Theorem proving
What do these have to do with each other?
Search Patterns
Forward chaining
Backward chaining
Fan-in, fan-out
CIS 530 / 730: Artificial Intelligence
Wednesday. 26 Sep 2007
Computing & Information Sciences
Kansas State University