Reasoning Theories: Towards an Architecture for Open Mechanized Reasoning Systems

. Our ultimate goal is to provide a framework and a methodology which will allow users, and not only system developers, to construct complex systems by composing existing modules, or to add new modules to existing systems, in a "plug and play" manner. These modules and systems might be based on different logics; have different domain models; use different vocabularies and data structures; use different reasoning strategies; and have different interaction capabilities. This paper, which is a first small step towards our goal, makes two main contributions. First, it proposes a general architecture for a class of reasoning modules and systems called Open Mechanized Reasoning Systems (OMRSs). An OMRS has three components: a reasoning theory component which is the counterpart of the logical notion of formal system, a control component which consists of a set of inference strategies, and an interaction component which provides an OMRS with the capability of interacting with other systems, in..