[comp.lang.prolog] Algebraic simplification

chomicki@aramis.rutgers.edu (Jan Chomicki) (01/17/88)

Does anybody have or can anyone point me to a reasonable Prolog
program for algebraic simplification? I'm particularly interested
in going between Disjunctive and Conjunctive normal forms of boolean
formulas. 

I'm NOT interested in standard textbook solutions to these
problems, because they do not translate into practical programs.
It seems to me that heuristics for both path termination 
and pattern selection for replacement have to be used.

On a more general note, is Prolog good for symbolic computation?
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Dept.of Computer Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903