A knowledge markup language and distributed theorem proving

Abstract

We mainly focus on the following two issues: the knowledge and problems representation on the Web, and how a theorem-proving system can provide users on the Web with theorem-proving Web services. As to the first issue, we propose MSKML (many-sorted knowledge markup language) as the language for knowledge and problems representation on the Web; as to the second, the theorem-proving server provides Web users with theorem-proving services through the SOAP (simple object access protocol). When a client on the Web need the theorem-proving services, it represents the problem as a XML (extensible markup language) file conforming to the MSKML DTD (document type definition) and sends a SOAP request message including the XML file to the theorem-proving server, and the theorem-proving server represents the solution as a XML file conforming to the MSKML DTD and send it back to the client as the SOAP response message.