John Harrison.
The Computer Journal, vol. 38, pp. 162-170, 1995.
Abstract:
Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) are a representation for Boolean formulas which
makes many operations, in particular tautology-checking, surprisingly efficient
in important practical cases. In contrast to such custom decision procedures,
the HOL theorem prover expands all proofs out to a sequence of extremely simple
primitive inferences. In this paper we describe how the BDD algorithm may be
adapted to comply with such strictures, helping us to understand the strengths
and limitations of the HOL approach.
Bibtex entry:
@ARTICLE{harrison-cj95,
author = "John Harrison",
title = "Binary Decision Diagrams as a {HOL} Derived Rule",
journal = "The Computer Journal",
year = 1995,
volume = "38",
pages = "162--170"}