===== SNARK ===== SNARK, SRI's New Automated Reasoning Kit, is a theorem prover intended for applications in artificial intelligence and software engineering. SNARK is geared toward dealing with large sets of assertions; it can be specialized with strategic controls that tune its performance; and it has facilities for integrating special-purpose reasoning procedures with general-purpose inference. -------- Overview -------- SNARK is an automated theorem-proving program being developed in Common Lisp. Its principal inference rules are resolution and paramodulation. SNARK's style of theorem proving is similar to Otter's. Some distinctive features of SNARK are its support for special unification algorithms, sorts, answer construction for program synthesis, procedural attachment, and extensibility by Lisp code. SNARK has been used as the reasoning component of SRI's High Performance Knowledge Base (HPKB) system, which deduces answers to questions based on large repositories of information, and as the deductive core of NASA's Amphion system, which composes software from components to meet users' specifications, e.g., to perform computations in planetary astronomy. SNARK has also been connected to Kestrel's SPECWARE environment for software development. Selected Publications Stickel, M., R. Waldinger, M. Lowry, T. Pressburger, and I. Underwood. Deductive composition of astronomical software from subroutine libraries. Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE-12), Nancy, France, June 1994, 341-355. --------------------- Links & Documentation --------------------- SNARK tutorial ... http://www.ai.sri.com/snark/tutorial/tutorial.html SNARK paper ...... http://www.sri.com/work/publications/guide-snark SNARK home ....... http://www.ai.sri.com/~stickel/snark.html SNARK author ..... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_E._Stickel ---------------- Obtaining SNARK: ---------------- New (18-MAR-2016): get it by QuickLisp (ql:quickload :snark) Or: SNARK can be downloaded from the SNARK web page http://www.ai.sri.com/~stickel/snark.html See INSTALL file for installation instructions Running SNARK: lisp (load "snark-system.lisp") (make-snark-system) : Examples: (overbeek-test) in overbeek-test.lisp some standard theorem-proving examples, some time-consuming (steamroller-example) in steamroller-example.lisp illustrates sorts (front-last-example) in front-last-example.lisp illustrates program synthesis (reverse-example) in reverse-example.lisp illustrates logic programming style usage A guide to SNARK has been written: http://www.ai.sri.com/snark/tutorial/tutorial.html but has not been updated yet to reflect changes in SNARK, especially for temporal and spatial reasoning. ----- NOTES ----- This repository is based on the latest version 20120808-r022 from the download site and the '.asd' files from https://github.com/hoelzl/Snark. The goal is to get SNARK installable by QuickLisp. Loadable by quicklisp since: 18-MAR-2016 * (ql:system-apropos :snark) #<SYSTEM snark / snark-20160318-git / quicklisp 2016-03-18> #<SYSTEM snark-agenda / snark-20160318-git / quicklisp 2016-03-18> #<SYSTEM snark-auxiliary-packages / snark-20160318-git / quicklisp 2016-03-18> #<SYSTEM snark-deque / snark-20160318-git / quicklisp 2016-03-18> #<SYSTEM snark-dpll / snark-20160318-git / quicklisp 2016-03-18> #<SYSTEM snark-examples / snark-20160318-git / quicklisp 2016-03-18> #<SYSTEM snark-feature / snark-20160318-git / quicklisp 2016-03-18> #<SYSTEM snark-implementation / snark-20160318-git / quicklisp 2016-03-18> #<SYSTEM snark-infix-reader / snark-20160318-git / quicklisp 2016-03-18> #<SYSTEM snark-lisp / snark-20160318-git / quicklisp 2016-03-18> #<SYSTEM snark-loads / snark-20160318-git / quicklisp 2016-03-18> #<SYSTEM snark-numbering / snark-20160318-git / quicklisp 2016-03-18> #<SYSTEM snark-pkg / snark-20160318-git / quicklisp 2016-03-18> #<SYSTEM snark-sparse-array / snark-20160318-git / quicklisp 2016-03-18> *