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Subject: Re: discrimination nets
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From: Laurent Thery <Laurent.Thery@cl.cam.ac.uk>
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>> A few days ago Tom Melham mentioned
>> that HOL uses discrimination nets 
>> in rewriting. Is there any documentation
>> describing the use of discrimination
>> nets in rewriting, or could someone point
>> out a good paper on them?

There's a chapter about discrimination nets in the following book:

Artificial Intelligence Programming 
  by E. Charniak, C.K. Riesberk, D. Mac Dermott and J. R. Meedhan.
  LEA edition

--Laurent
