TY - GEN
T1 - Proving ground confluence of equational specifications modulo axioms
AU - Durán, Francisco
AU - Meseguer, José
AU - Rocha, Camilo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Terminating functional programs should be deterministic, i.e., should evaluate to a unique result, regardless of the evaluation order. For equational functional programs such determinism is exactly captured by the ground confluence property. For terminating equations this is equivalent to ground local confluence, which follows from local confluence. Checking local confluence by computing critical pairs is the standard way to check ground confluence. The problem is that some perfectly reasonable equational programs are not locally confluent and it can be very hard or even impossible to make them so by adding more equations. We propose a three-step strategy to prove that an equational program as is is ground confluent: First: apply the strategy proposed in [9] to use non-joinable critical pairs as completion hints to either achieve local confluence or reduce the number of critical pairs. Second: use the inductive inference system proposed in this paper to prove the remaining critical pairs ground joinable. Third: to show ground confluence of the original specification, prove also ground joinable the equations added. These methods apply to order-sorted and possibly conditional equational programs modulo axioms such as, e.g., Maude functional modules.
AB - Terminating functional programs should be deterministic, i.e., should evaluate to a unique result, regardless of the evaluation order. For equational functional programs such determinism is exactly captured by the ground confluence property. For terminating equations this is equivalent to ground local confluence, which follows from local confluence. Checking local confluence by computing critical pairs is the standard way to check ground confluence. The problem is that some perfectly reasonable equational programs are not locally confluent and it can be very hard or even impossible to make them so by adding more equations. We propose a three-step strategy to prove that an equational program as is is ground confluent: First: apply the strategy proposed in [9] to use non-joinable critical pairs as completion hints to either achieve local confluence or reduce the number of critical pairs. Second: use the inductive inference system proposed in this paper to prove the remaining critical pairs ground joinable. Third: to show ground confluence of the original specification, prove also ground joinable the equations added. These methods apply to order-sorted and possibly conditional equational programs modulo axioms such as, e.g., Maude functional modules.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-99840-4_11
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-99840-4_11
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85053865455
SN - 9783319998398
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 184
EP - 204
BT - Rewriting Logic and Its Applications - 12th International Workshop, WRLA 2018, Held as a Satellite Event of ETAPS, 2018, Proceedings
A2 - Rusu, Vlad
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 12th International Workshop on Rewriting Logic and its Applications, WRLA 2018
Y2 - 14 June 2018 through 15 June 2018
ER -