@ARTICLE{Konev+Degtyarev+Dixon+Fisher+Hustadt@InfComputat2005, AUTHOR = {Boris Konev and Anatoli Degtyarev and Clare Dixon and Michael Fisher and Ullrich Hustadt}, TITLE = {Mechanising first-order temporal resolution}, JOURNAL = {Information and Computation}, YEAR = {2005}, VOLUME = {199}, NUMBER = {1-2}, PAGES = {55-86}, URL = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ic.2004.10.005}, ABSTRACT = {First-order temporal logic is a concise and powerful notation, with many potential applications in both Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. While the full logic is highly complex, recent work on monodic first-order temporal logics has identified important enumerable and even decidable fragments. Although a complete and correct resolution-style calculus has already been suggested for this specific fragment, this calculus involves constructions too complex to be of practical value. In this paper, we develop a machine-oriented clausal resolution method which features radically simplified proof search. We first define a normal form for monodic formulae and then introduce a novel resolution calculus that can be applied to formulae in this normal form. By careful encoding, parts of the calculus can be implemented using classical first-order resolution and can, thus, be efficiently implemented. We prove correctness and completeness results for the calculus and illustrate it on a comprehensive example. An implementation of the method is briefly discussed.} }