Termination by abstraction

Nachum Dershowitz*

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Abstract

Abstraction can be used very effectively to decompose and simplify termination arguments. If a symbolic computation is nonterminating, then there is an infinite computation with a top redex, such that all redexes are immortal, but all children of redexes are mortal. This suggests applying weakly-monotonic well-founded relations in abstraction-based termination methods, expressed here within an abstract framework for term-based proofs. Lexicographic combinations of orderings may be used to match up with multiple levels of abstraction.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
EditorsBart Demoen, Vladimir Lifschitz
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages1-18
Number of pages18
ISBN (Print)3540226710, 9783540226710
DOIs
StatePublished - 2004

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3132
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

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