Publications

Authors:

Bonacina, Maria Paola; Nachum, Dershowitz

Title:

Canonical ground Horn theories

Year:

2013

Type of item:

Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)

Tipologia ANVUR:

Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)

Language:

Inglese

Format:

A Stampa

Book Title:

Programming Logics: Essays in memory of Harald Ganzinger

Publisher:

Springer

ISBN:

9783642376504

Page numbers:

35-71

Keyword:

Horn theories; conditional theories; Moore families; decision procedures; canonical systems; normal forms; saturation; redundancy

Short description of contents:

An abstract framework of canonical inference based on proof orderings is applied to ground Horn theories with equality. A finite presentation that makes all normal-form proofs available is called saturated. To maximize the chance that a saturated presentation be finite, it should also be contracted, in which case it is deemed canonical. We apply these notions to propositional Horn theorie - or equivalently Moore families - presented as implicational systems or associative-commutative rewrite systems, and ground equational Horn theories, presented as decreasing conditional rewrite systems. For implicational systems, we study different notions of optimality and the completion procedures that generate them, and we suggest a new notion of rewrite-optimality, that takes contraction by simplification into account. For conditional rewrite systems,we show that reduced (fully normalized) is stronger than contracted (sans redundancy), and accordingly the perfect system - complete and reduced - is preferred to the canonical one - saturated and contracted. We conclude with a survey of approaches to normal-form proofs, saturated, or canonical, systems, and decision procedures based on them.

Web page:

http://www.springer.com/computer/theoretical+computer+science/book/978-3-642-37650-4
https://mariapaola.github.io/

Product ID:

59336

Handle IRIS:

11562/348366

Deposited On:

March 20, 2013

Last Modified:

September 18, 2023

Bibliographic citation:

Bonacina, Maria Paola; Nachum, Dershowitz, Canonical ground Horn theories Programming Logics: Essays in memory of Harald Ganzinger , Springer , 2013 , pp. 35-71

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