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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Automated Deduction, CADE-24, held in Lake Placid, NY, USA, in June 2013. The 31 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 71 initial submissions. CADE is the major forum for the presentation of research in all aspects of automated deduction, ranging from theoretical and methodological issues to the presentation of new theorem provers, solvers and systems.

This book is a collection of selected papers written by researchers qf our'RISC'institute (Research Institute for Symbolic Computation) along with the ESPRIT MEDLAR Project (Mechanizing Deduction in the Logics of Practical Reason­ ing). Naturally, the MEDLAR Project was and is the focal point for our institute whose main objective is the combination of foundational research in the area of symbolic computation and possible applications thereof for high-tech industrial projects. I am grateful to the director of the MEDLAR project, Jim Cunningham, for his enthusiasm, profound expertise, and continuous effort to manage a fruitful cooperation between various European working groups in the area of the project and for giving us the opportunity to be part of this challenging endeavor. I also acknowledge and feel indebted to Jochen Pfalzgraf for managing the RISC part of the MEDLAR project and to both him and Dongming Wang for editing this volume and organizing the refereeing process.

Automated Theorem Proving: A Logical Basis

This book contains an introduction to symbolic logic and a thorough discussion of mechanical theorem proving and its applications. The book consists of three major parts. Chapters 2 and 3 constitute an introduction to symbolic logic. Chapters 4-9 introduce several techniques in mechanical theorem proving, and Chapters 10 an 11 show how theorem proving can be applied to various areas such as question answering, problem solving, program analysis, and program synthesis.