scholarly journals Origin tracking for higher-order term rewriting systems

1994 ◽  
pp. 76-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arie Deursen ◽  
T. B. Dinesh
Keyword(s):  
Order Term ◽  
Term Rewriting ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Term Rewriting Systems ◽  
Rewriting Systems ◽  
Higher Order Term

scholarly journals A rewriting calculus for cyclic higher-order term graphs

2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 363-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAOLO BALDAN ◽  
CLARA BERTOLISSI ◽  
HORATIU CIRSTEA ◽  
CLAUDE KIRCHNER
Keyword(s):  
Order Term ◽  
Equational Theory ◽  
Term Rewriting ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Graph Representation ◽  
First Order ◽  
Rewrite Rules ◽  
Evaluation Mechanism ◽  
Matching Constraints ◽  
Higher Order Term

The Rewriting Calculus (ρ-calculus, for short) was introduced at the end of the 1990s and fully integrates term-rewriting and λ-calculus. The rewrite rules, acting as elaborated abstractions, their application and the structured results obtained are first class objects of the calculus. The evaluation mechanism, which is a generalisation of beta-reduction, relies strongly on term matching in various theories.In this paper we propose an extension of the ρ-calculus, called ρg-calculus, that handles structures with cycles and sharing rather than simple terms. This is obtained by using recursion constraints in addition to the standard ρ-calculus matching constraints, which leads to a term-graph representation in an equational style. Like in the ρ-calculus, the transformations are performed by explicit application of rewrite rules as first-class entities. The possibility of expressing sharing and cycles allows one to represent and compute over regular infinite entities.We show that the ρg-calculus, under suitable linearity conditions, is confluent. The proof of this result is quite elaborate, due to the non-termination of the system and the fact that ρg-calculus-terms are considered modulo an equational theory. We also show that the ρg-calculus is expressive enough to simulate first-order (equational) left-linear term-graph rewriting and α-calculus with explicit recursion (modelled using a letrec-like construct).

Term graph narrowing

1996 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 649-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annegret Habel ◽  
Detlef Plump
Keyword(s):  
General Solution ◽  
Order Term ◽  
Term Rewriting ◽  
Term Rewriting Systems ◽  
Graph Rewriting ◽  
First Order ◽  
Improve Efficiency ◽  
Rewriting Systems ◽  
Solving Equations

We introduce term graph narrowing as an approach for solving equations by transformations on term graphs. Term graph narrowing combines term graph rewriting with first-order term unification. Our main result is that this mechanism is complete for all term rewriting systems over which term graph rewriting is normalizing and confluent. This includes, in particular, all convergent term rewriting systems. Completeness means that for every solution of a given equation, term graph narrowing can find a more general solution. The general motivation for using term graphs instead of terms is to improve efficiency: sharing common subterms saves space and avoids the repetition of computations.

scholarly journals Semantics and strong sequentiality of priority term rewriting systems

1998 ◽  
Vol 208 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 87-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masahiko Sakai ◽  
Yoshihito Toyama
Keyword(s):  
Term Rewriting ◽  
Term Rewriting Systems ◽  
Rewriting Systems

PATTERN MATCHING CODE MINIMIZATION IN REWRITING-BASED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

2002 ◽  
Vol 13 (06) ◽  
pp. 873-887
Author(s):  
NADIA NEDJAH ◽  
LUIZA DE MACEDO MOURELLE
Keyword(s):  
Programming Languages ◽  
Pattern Matching ◽  
Term Rewriting ◽  
Directed Acyclic Graphs ◽  
Tree Automaton ◽  
Minimal Tree ◽  
Term Rewriting Systems ◽  
Rewriting Systems ◽  
Acyclic Graphs ◽  
Space Requirements

We compile pattern matching for overlapping patterns in term rewriting systems into a minimal, tree matching automata. The use of directed acyclic graphs that shares all the isomorphic subautomata allows us to reduce space requirements. These are duplicated in the tree automaton. We design an efficient method to identify such subautomata and avoid duplicating their construction while generating the dag automaton. We compute some bounds on the size of the automata, thereby improving on previously known equivalent bounds for the tree automaton.

Derivation of Skyrme Lagrangian and higher-order term

1990 ◽  
Vol 41 (9) ◽  
pp. 2930-2932
Author(s):  
Akihiro Ito
Keyword(s):  
Order Term ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Higher Order Term

scholarly journals Infinite normal forms for non-linear term rewriting systems

1995 ◽  
Vol 152 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-303
Author(s):  
Paola Inverardi ◽  
Monica Nesi
Keyword(s):  
Normal Forms ◽  
Term Rewriting ◽  
Linear Term ◽  
Term Rewriting Systems ◽  
Rewriting Systems ◽  
Non Linear
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