Connecting many-sorted structures and theories through adjoint functions

  • Authors:
  • Franz Baader;Silvio Ghilardi

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Theoretische Informatik, TU Dresden;Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano

  • Venue:
  • FroCoS'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Frontiers of Combining Systems
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In a previous paper, we have introduced a general approach for connecting two many-sorted theories through connection functions that behave like homomorphisms on the shared signature, and have shown that, under appropriate algebraic conditions, decidability of the validity of universal formulae in the component theories transfers to their connection. This work generalizes decidability transfer results for so-called ε-connections of modal logics. However, in this general algebraic setting, only the most basic type of ε-connections could be handled. In the present paper, we overcome this restriction by looking at pairs of connection functions that are adjoint pairs for partial orders defined in the component theories.