Visibly Pushdown Languages and Term Rewriting

  • Authors:
  • Jacques Chabin;Pierre Réty

  • Affiliations:
  • LIFO - Université d'Orléans, B.P. 6759, 45067 Orléans cedex 2, France;LIFO - Université d'Orléans, B.P. 6759, 45067 Orléans cedex 2, France

  • Venue:
  • FroCoS '07 Proceedings of the 6th international symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

To combine tree languages with term rewriting, we introduce a new class of tree languages, that both extends regular languages and restricts context-free languages, and that is closed under intersection (unlike context-free languages). To do it, we combine the concept of visibly pushdown language, with top-down pushdown tree automata, and we get the visibly pushdown tree automata. Then, we use them to express the sets of descendants for a sub-class of growing term rewrite systems, and thanks to closure under intersection, we get that joinability and (restricted) unifiability are decidable.