A Rewrite Rule Based Framework for Combining Decision Procedures

  • Authors:
  • Deepak Kapur

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • FroCoS '02 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Frontiers of Combining Systems
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

A rewrite rule based framework for combining decision procedures for universally quantified theories is proposed. It builds on the key ideas of Shostak's combination approach. A distinctive feature of the proposed framework is that its soundness and completeness can be easily established. Furthermore, the framework has the desired property of being efficient (by avoiding duplication of equality reasoning in all decision procedures) as well as generating canonical forms as in Shostak's combination framework. It thus enables tight integration of decision procedures with equational and inductive reasoning based on rewriting.