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Section: New Software and Platforms

SPASS

Functional Description

SPASS is an automated theorem prover based on superposition that handles first-order logic with equality and several extensions for particular classes of theories. It has been developed since the mid-1990s at the Max-Planck Institut für Informatik in Saarbrücken. Version 3.8 is the final release of the SPASS first-order prover built on a traditional “select given loop” design; it is distributed under the FreeBSD license at http://www.spass-prover.org .

SPASS will be released in the future in the form of various reasoners for different logics, including combinations of first-order logic with background theories, in particular some forms of arithmetic. In 2015, we have continued our efforts to improve the superposition calculus as well as to develop dedicated arithmetic decision procedures for various arithmetic theories, in particular linear integer arithmetic. Our results are: