Presentation 2017-03-10
Proving Confluence of Hierarchical Conditional Term Rewriting Systems without Sufficient Completeness
Takayuki Kuroda, Naoki Nishida, Hiroyuki Seki,
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Abstract(in English) A transformational approach to confluence proofs for conditional term rewriting systems (CTRS) has been investigated, but confluence of a CTRS defining sorting over natural numbers has not been proved yet by any existing confluence prover. Such a CTRS defines behavior of function symbols hierarchically, called a hierarchical CTRS, and is not sufficiently complete. In this article, we propose a method to prove confluence of hierarchical CTRSs that are not sufficiently complete. More precisely, we first extend rewriting induction for conditional equations to TRSs that are not sufficiently complete, and then we prove joinability of a conditional critical pair by inducing other conditions from the original conditional part. Next, we design a simplification order that takes conditional parts of rewrite rules into account, and propose a method to prove termination of hierarchical CTRSs by means of the designed simplification order.
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Keyword(in English) conditional term rewriting system / confluence / rewriting induction / sufficient completeness
Paper # SS2016-77
Date of Issue 2017-03-02 (SS)

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Conference Date 2017/3/9(2days)
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Chair Kazuhiro Ogata(JAIST)
Vice Chair Akio Nakata(Hiroshima City Univ.)
Secretary Akio Nakata(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.)
Assistant Kazuyuki Shima(Hiroshima City Univ.)

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Title (in English) Proving Confluence of Hierarchical Conditional Term Rewriting Systems without Sufficient Completeness
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Keyword(1) conditional term rewriting system
Keyword(2) confluence
Keyword(3) rewriting induction
Keyword(4) sufficient completeness
1st Author's Name Takayuki Kuroda
1st Author's Affiliation Nagoya University(Nagoya Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Naoki Nishida
2nd Author's Affiliation Nagoya University(Nagoya Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Hiroyuki Seki
3rd Author's Affiliation Nagoya University(Nagoya Univ.)
Date 2017-03-10
Paper # SS2016-77
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) SS-512
Page pp.pp.103-108(SS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2017-03-02 (SS)