Formalizing Rewriting in the ACL2 Theorem Prover

  • Authors:
  • José-Luis Ruiz-Reina;José-Antonio Alonso;María-José Hidalgo;Francisco-Jesús Martín-Mateos

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • AISC '00 Revised Papers from the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We present an application of the ACL2 theorem prover to formalize and reason about rewrite systems theory. This can be seen as a first approach to apply formal methods, using ACL2, to the design of symbolic computation systems, since the notion of rewriting or simplification is ubiquitous in such systems. We concentrate here on formalization and representation aspects of abstract reduction and term rewriting systems, using the first-order, quantifier-free ACL2 logic based on Common Lisp.