Confluence of non-left-linear TRSs via relative termination

  • Authors:
  • Dominik Klein;Nao Hirokawa

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan;School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

  • Venue:
  • LPAR'12 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We present a confluence criterion for term rewrite systems by relaxing termination requirements of Knuth and Bendix' confluence criterion, using joinability of extended critical pairs. Because computation of extended critical pairs requires equational unification, which is undecidable, we give a sufficient condition for testing joinability automatically.