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Termination of Programs using Term Rewriting and SAT Solving

Authors: Jürgen Giesl, Peter Schneider-Kamp, René Thiemann, Stephan Swiderski, Manh Thang Nguyen, Daniel De Schreye, and Alexander Serebrenik

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 7401, Deduction and Decision Procedures (2007)

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There are many powerful techniques for automated termination analysis of term rewrite systems (TRSs). However, up to now they have hardly been used for real programming languages. In this talk, we describe recent results which permit the application of existing techniques from term rewriting in order to prove termination of programs. We discuss two possible approaches: 1. One could translate programs into TRSs and then use existing tools to verify termination of the resulting TRSs. 2. One could adapt TRS-techniques to the respective programming languages in order to analyze programs directly. We present such approaches for the functional language Haskell and the logic language Prolog. Our results have been implemented in the termination provers AProVE and Polytool. In order to handle termination problems resulting from real programs, these provers had to be coupled with modern SAT solvers, since the automation of the TRS-termination techniques had to improve significantly. Our resulting termination analyzers are currently the most powerful ones for Haskell and Prolog.

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Jürgen Giesl, Peter Schneider-Kamp, René Thiemann, Stephan Swiderski, Manh Thang Nguyen, Daniel De Schreye, and Alexander Serebrenik. Termination of Programs using Term Rewriting and SAT Solving. In Deduction and Decision Procedures. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 7401, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2007)

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@InProceedings{giesl_et_al:DagSemProc.07401.7,
  author =	{Giesl, J\"{u}rgen and Schneider-Kamp, Peter and Thiemann, Ren\'{e} and Swiderski, Stephan and Nguyen, Manh Thang and De Schreye, Daniel and Serebrenik, Alexander},
  title =	{{Termination of Programs using Term Rewriting and SAT Solving}},
  booktitle =	{Deduction and Decision Procedures},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2007},
  volume =	{7401},
  editor =	{Franz Baader and Byron Cook and J\"{u}rgen Giesl and Robert Nieuwenhuis},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.07401.7},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-12481},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.07401.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: Termination, Term Rewriting, Haskell, Prolog, SAT Solving}
}

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