@InProceedings{suciu_et_al:LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.11, author = {Suciu, Dan and Wang, Yisu Remy and Zhang, Yihong}, title = {{Semantic Foundations of Equality Saturation}}, booktitle = {28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2025)}, pages = {11:1--11:18}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-364-5}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2025}, volume = {328}, editor = {Roy, Sudeepa and Kara, Ahmet}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.11}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-229523}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.11}, annote = {Keywords: the chase, equality saturation, term rewriting, tree automata, query optimization} }