I am not aware specifically of the methods used in FriCAS.

It is possible, I suppose, that given an expression it immediately
tries to find an appropriate differential field and begins some version
of the Risch "algorithm"  (which actually fails to be an algorithm
for various reasons), and doesn't use the usual methods first.

Since a huge percentage of integration problems (Like 90 percent
of textbook problems) can be done by the "derivative divides"
method, that takes about a page of code, and is almost
instantaneous, I would be surprised if this is not used by
FriCAS.  But as I said, it is possible that FriCAS doesn't
do this.

As for the paper being a fraud, I do not know* for sure*
what the authors did,  just a suspicion.  And they may
just be well-intentioned, but naive. see the quote above..

I think you might find that much of the literature in AI
describes the results in an overly self-serving mode.
It is probably worse than science literature generally,
but even that has been getting some bad press about
results that are not reproducible.  One would hope
that computer science software results would be more
generally reproducible, but that depends on the
software being made available.

RJF

On Monday, October 7, 2019 at 8:10:20 AM UTC-7, Martin R wrote:
>
>
>>> Are you saying that  FriCAS is the only CAS which doesn't do this?
>>>
>>
>> AFAICT, FriCAS dos this also... 
>>
>> I don't think so - are you sure?  Neither do I not know the Risch 
> algorithm nor FriCAS' implementation of it too well, but I would have 
> thought that FriCAS doesn't do pattern matching in the sense described 
> above.
>
> Martin
>

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