A maude coherence checker tool for conditional order-sorted rewrite theories

Francisco Durán, José Meseguer

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Abstract

For a rewrite theory to be executable, its equations E should be (ground) confluent and terminating modulo the given axioms A, and their rules should be (ground) coherent with E modulo A. The correctness of many important formal verification tasks, including search, LTL model checking, and the development of abstractions, crucially depends on the theory being ground coherent. Furthermore, many specifications of interest are typed, have equations E and rules R that are both conditional, have axioms A involving various combinations of associativity, commutativity and identity, and may contain frozenness restrictions. This makes it essential to extend the known coherence checking methods from the untyped, unconditional, and AC or free case, to this much more general setting. We present the mathematical foundations of the Maude ChC 3 tool, which provide such a generalization to support coherence and ground coherence checking for order-sorted rewrite theories under these general assumptions. We also explain and illustrate the use of the ChC 3 tool with a nontrivial example.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationRewriting Logic and Its Applications - 8th International Workshop, WRLA 2010, Held as a Satellite Event of ETAPS 2010, Revised Selected Papers
Pages86-103
Number of pages18
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event8th International Workshop on Rewriting Logic and Its Applications, WRLA 2010, Held as a Satellite Event of ETAPS 2010 - Paphos, Cyprus
Duration: Mar 20 2010Mar 21 2010

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6381 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other8th International Workshop on Rewriting Logic and Its Applications, WRLA 2010, Held as a Satellite Event of ETAPS 2010
Country/TerritoryCyprus
CityPaphos
Period3/20/103/21/10

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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