15 Search Results for "Ayala-Rincón, Mauricio"

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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.RW.2024/2025.7
Modern Datalog: Concepts, Methods, Applications (Invited Paper)

Authors: Markus Krötzsch

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 138, Joint Proceedings of the 20th and 21st Reasoning Web Summer Schools (RW 2024 & RW 2025)

Abstract
Pure Datalog is arguably the most fundamental rule language, elegant and simple, but also often too limited to be useful in practice. This has motivated the introduction of many new expressive features, ranging from datatypes and related functions, over aggregates and semi-ring generalisations, to existential quantifiers and complex terms. In spite of their variety, all these approaches remain true to the nature of Datalog as a direct, pattern-based way of computing on structured data. We therefore find that a modern notion of Datalog is emerging, distinctly different from other approaches of logic programming and with its own set of related methods and applications. In this course, we introduce Datalog and its most common extensions, and explain when and how these features can be used together (which is often, but not always, safe to do). We further look at modern Datalog systems and some of their primary use cases. Hands-on work with Datalog and its extensions is done with the free Datalog engine https://knowsys.github.io/nemo-doc/. The course is accessible to all audiences and does not assume specific prior knowledge.
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Markus Krötzsch. Modern Datalog: Concepts, Methods, Applications (Invited Paper). In Joint Proceedings of the 20th and 21st Reasoning Web Summer Schools (RW 2024 & RW 2025). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 138, pp. 7:1-7:41, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{krotzsch:OASIcs.RW.2024/2025.7,
  author =	{Kr\"{o}tzsch, Markus},
  title =	{{Modern Datalog: Concepts, Methods, Applications}},
  booktitle =	{Joint Proceedings of the 20th and 21st Reasoning Web Summer Schools (RW 2024 \& RW 2025)},
  pages =	{7:1--7:41},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-405-5},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{138},
  editor =	{Artale, Alessandro and Bienvenu, Meghyn and Garc{\'\i}a, Yazm{\'\i}n Ib\'{a}\~{n}ez and Murlak, Filip},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.RW.2024/2025.7},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-250524},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.RW.2024/2025.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: Datalog, query language, knowlegde representation and reasoning, logic programming, Horn logic, SPARQL, datatypes and aggregation, lecture notes, tutorial}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2025.8
Abstract, Compositional Consistency: Isabelle/HOL Locales for Completeness à la Fitting

Authors: Asta Halkjær From and Anders Schlichtkrull

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 352, 16th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2025)

Abstract
Smullyan and Fitting have used abstract consistency properties to great effect in unifying meta-theoretical results in logic. In this paper, we generalize these developments with the help of Isabelle/HOL. We use locales to decompose abstract consistency into general parts, and provide the textbook variants as special cases. Users can assemble their own consistency property for a given logic. The compositionality alleviates the absence of dependent types in Isabelle/HOL. We use our development to mechanize completeness of calculi for three logics: (1) first-order logic where we only instantiate universal quantifiers with already occurring terms, (2) second-order logic over general models, and (3) a recently developed strong hybrid logic with propositional quantification.
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Asta Halkjær From and Anders Schlichtkrull. Abstract, Compositional Consistency: Isabelle/HOL Locales for Completeness à la Fitting. In 16th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 352, pp. 8:1-8:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{from_et_al:LIPIcs.ITP.2025.8,
  author =	{From, Asta Halkj{\ae}r and Schlichtkrull, Anders},
  title =	{{Abstract, Compositional Consistency: Isabelle/HOL Locales for Completeness \`{a} la Fitting}},
  booktitle =	{16th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2025)},
  pages =	{8:1--8:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-396-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{352},
  editor =	{Forster, Yannick and Keller, Chantal},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2025.8},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-246406},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2025.8},
  annote =	{Keywords: Logic, completeness, abstract consistency property, Isabelle/HOL, locales}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2025.36
Verifying Datalog Reasoning with Lean

Authors: Johannes Tantow, Lukas Gerlach, Stephan Mennicke, and Markus Krötzsch

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 352, 16th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2025)

Abstract
Datalog is an essential logical rule language with many applications, and modern rule engines compute logical consequences for Datalog with high performance and scalability. While Datalog is rather simple and, in principle, explainable by design, such sophisticated implementations and optimizations are hard to verify. We therefore propose a certificate-based approach to validate results of Datalog reasoners in a formally verified checker for Datalog proofs. Using the proof assistant Lean, we implement such a checker and verify its correctness against direct formalizations of the Datalog semantics. We propose two JSON encodings for Datalog proofs: one using the widely supported Datalog proof trees, and one using directed acyclic graphs for succinctness. To evaluate the practical feasibility and performance of our approach, we validate proofs that we obtain by converting derivation traces of an existing Datalog reasoner into our tool-independent format.
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Johannes Tantow, Lukas Gerlach, Stephan Mennicke, and Markus Krötzsch. Verifying Datalog Reasoning with Lean. In 16th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 352, pp. 36:1-36:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{tantow_et_al:LIPIcs.ITP.2025.36,
  author =	{Tantow, Johannes and Gerlach, Lukas and Mennicke, Stephan and Kr\"{o}tzsch, Markus},
  title =	{{Verifying Datalog Reasoning with Lean}},
  booktitle =	{16th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2025)},
  pages =	{36:1--36:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-396-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{352},
  editor =	{Forster, Yannick and Keller, Chantal},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2025.36},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-246342},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2025.36},
  annote =	{Keywords: Certifying Algorithms, Datalog, Formal Verification}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2025.39
The 3-Decomposition Conjecture: A SAT-Based Approach with Specialized Propagators

Authors: Tianwei Zhang and Stefan Szeider

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 340, 31st International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2025)

Abstract
We investigate the 3-decomposition conjecture, which states that every connected cubic graph can be decomposed into a spanning tree, a collection of cycles, and a matching. Using a SAT-based approach enhanced with specialized propagators, we verify the conjecture for all relevant graphs up to 28 vertices. Our method extends the Satisfiability Modulo Symmetries (SMS) framework with specialized propagators that exploit theoretical properties of minimal counterexamples (counterexamples with the minimal number of vertices), enabling efficient pruning. We demonstrate that graphs containing certain substructures cannot be minimal counterexamples to the conjecture, allowing us to exclude these patterns during the search dynamically. Our experimental results quantify the impact of different propagator configurations and forbidden subgraph constraints on solving efficiency, showing significant performance improvements when leveraging these techniques. The approach scales effectively to graphs of 28 vertices. Our work illustrates how combining SAT solving with specialized constraint propagation techniques can successfully address challenging combinatorial problems in contemporary graph theory.
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Tianwei Zhang and Stefan Szeider. The 3-Decomposition Conjecture: A SAT-Based Approach with Specialized Propagators. In 31st International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 340, pp. 39:1-39:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{zhang_et_al:LIPIcs.CP.2025.39,
  author =	{Zhang, Tianwei and Szeider, Stefan},
  title =	{{The 3-Decomposition Conjecture: A SAT-Based Approach with Specialized Propagators}},
  booktitle =	{31st International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2025)},
  pages =	{39:1--39:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-380-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{340},
  editor =	{de la Banda, Maria Garcia},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2025.39},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-239005},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2025.39},
  annote =	{Keywords: SAT, Symmetry Breaking, Subgraphs, Propagators, Combinatorics}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.Manzini.6
Optimizing the Performance of the FM-Index for Large-Scale Data

Authors: Eddie Ferro and Christina Boucher

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 131, The Expanding World of Compressed Data: A Festschrift for Giovanni Manzini's 60th Birthday (2025)

Abstract
The FM-index is a fundamental data structure used in bioinformatics to efficiently search for strings and index genomes. However, the FM-index can pose computational challenges, particularly in the context of large-scale genomic datasets, due to the complexity of its underlying components and data encodings. In this paper, we present a comprehensive review of efficient variants of the FM-index and the encoding strategies used to improve performance. We examine hardware-accelerated techniques, such as memory-efficient data layouts and cache-aware structures, as well as software-level innovations, including algorithmic refinements and compact representations. The reviewed work demonstrates substantial gains in both speed and scalability, making methods that use the FM-index more practical for high-throughput genomic applications. By analyzing the trade-offs and design choices of these variants, we highlight how combining hardware-aware and software-centric strategies enables more efficient FM-index construction and usage across a range of bioinformatics tasks.
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Eddie Ferro and Christina Boucher. Optimizing the Performance of the FM-Index for Large-Scale Data. In The Expanding World of Compressed Data: A Festschrift for Giovanni Manzini's 60th Birthday. Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 131, pp. 6:1-6:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{ferro_et_al:OASIcs.Manzini.6,
  author =	{Ferro, Eddie and Boucher, Christina},
  title =	{{Optimizing the Performance of the FM-Index for Large-Scale Data}},
  booktitle =	{The Expanding World of Compressed Data: A Festschrift for Giovanni Manzini's 60th Birthday},
  pages =	{6:1--6:21},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-390-4},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{131},
  editor =	{Ferragina, Paolo and Gagie, Travis and Navarro, Gonzalo},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.Manzini.6},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-239140},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.Manzini.6},
  annote =	{Keywords: FM-Index Acceleration, Run-Length Encoding, Suffix Array Optimization, Burrows-Wheeler Transform, Efficient Backward Search}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SAT.2025.32
Efficient Certified Reasoning for Binarized Neural Networks

Authors: Jiong Yang, Yong Kiam Tan, Mate Soos, Magnus O. Myreen, and Kuldeep S. Meel

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 341, 28th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2025)

Abstract
Neural networks have emerged as essential components in safety-critical applications - these use cases demand complex, yet trustworthy computations. Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) are a type of neural network where each neuron is constrained to a Boolean value; they are particularly well-suited for safety-critical tasks because they retain much of the computational capacities of full-scale (floating-point or quantized) deep neural networks, but remain compatible with satisfiability solvers for qualitative verification and with model counters for quantitative reasoning. However, existing methods for BNN analysis suffer from either limited scalability or susceptibility to soundness errors, which hinders their applicability in real-world scenarios. In this work, we present a scalable and trustworthy approach for both qualitative and quantitative verification of BNNs. Our approach introduces a native representation of BNN constraints in a custom-designed solver for qualitative reasoning, and in an approximate model counter for quantitative reasoning. We further develop specialized proof generation and checking pipelines with native support for BNN constraint reasoning, ensuring trustworthiness for all of our verification results. Empirical evaluations on a BNN robustness verification benchmark suite demonstrate that our certified solving approach achieves a 9× speedup over prior certified CNF and PB-based approaches, and our certified counting approach achieves a 218× speedup over the existing CNF-based baseline. In terms of coverage, our pipeline produces fully certified results for 99% and 86% of the qualitative and quantitative reasoning queries on BNNs, respectively. This is in sharp contrast to the best existing baselines which can fully certify only 62% and 4% of the queries, respectively.
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Jiong Yang, Yong Kiam Tan, Mate Soos, Magnus O. Myreen, and Kuldeep S. Meel. Efficient Certified Reasoning for Binarized Neural Networks. In 28th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 341, pp. 32:1-32:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{yang_et_al:LIPIcs.SAT.2025.32,
  author =	{Yang, Jiong and Tan, Yong Kiam and Soos, Mate and Myreen, Magnus O. and Meel, Kuldeep S.},
  title =	{{Efficient Certified Reasoning for Binarized Neural Networks}},
  booktitle =	{28th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2025)},
  pages =	{32:1--32:22},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-381-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{341},
  editor =	{Berg, Jeremias and Nordstr\"{o}m, Jakob},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SAT.2025.32},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-237665},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SAT.2025.32},
  annote =	{Keywords: Neural network verification, proof certification, SAT solving, approximate model counting}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SEA.2025.14
Efficient Terabyte-Scale Text Compression via Stable Local Consistency and Parallel Grammar Processing

Authors: Diego Díaz-Domínguez

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 338, 23rd International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2025)

Abstract
We present compression algorithms designed to process terabyte-sized datasets in parallel. Our approach builds on locally consistent grammars, a lightweight form of compression, combined with simple post-processing techniques to achieve further space reductions. Locally consistent grammar algorithms are suitable for scaling as they need minimal satellite information to compact the text, but they are not inherently parallel. To enable parallelisation, we introduce a novel concept that we call stable local consistency. A grammar algorithm ALG is stable if for any pattern P occurring in a collection 𝒯 = {T_1, T_2, …, T_k}, instances ALG(T_1), ALG(T_2), …, ALG(T_k) independently produce cores for P with the same topology. In a locally consistent grammar, the core of P is a subset of nodes and edges in the parse tree of 𝒯 that remains the same in all the occurrences of P. This feature enables compression, but it only holds if ALG defines a common set of nonterminal symbols for the strings. Stability removes this restriction, allowing us to run ALG(T_1), ALG(T_2), …, ALG(T_k) in parallel and subsequently merge their grammars into a single output equivalent to that of ALG(𝒯). We implemented our ideas and tested them on massive datasets. Our experiments showed that our method could process 7.9 TB of bacterial genomes in around nine hours, using 16 threads and 0.43 bits/symbol of working memory, achieving a compression ratio of 85x.
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Diego Díaz-Domínguez. Efficient Terabyte-Scale Text Compression via Stable Local Consistency and Parallel Grammar Processing. In 23rd International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 338, pp. 14:1-14:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{diazdominguez:LIPIcs.SEA.2025.14,
  author =	{D{\'\i}az-Dom{\'\i}nguez, Diego},
  title =	{{Efficient Terabyte-Scale Text Compression via Stable Local Consistency and Parallel Grammar Processing}},
  booktitle =	{23rd International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2025)},
  pages =	{14:1--14:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-375-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{338},
  editor =	{Mutzel, Petra and Prezza, Nicola},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SEA.2025.14},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-232525},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SEA.2025.14},
  annote =	{Keywords: Grammar compression, locally consistent parsing, hashing}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SEA.2025.12
Bit Packed Encodings for Grammar-Compressed Strings Supporting Fast Random Access

Authors: Alan M. Cleary, Joseph Winjum, Jordan Dood, Hiroki Shibata, and Shunsuke Inenaga

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 338, 23rd International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2025)

Abstract
Grammar-based compression is a powerful compression technique that allows for computation over the compressed data. While there has been extensive theoretical work on grammar and encoding size, there has been little work on practical grammar encodings. In this work, we consider the canonical array-of-arrays grammar representation and present a general bit packing approach for reducing its space requirements in practice. We then present three bit packing strategies based on this approach - one online and two offline - with different space-time trade-offs. This technique can be used to encode any grammar-compressed string while preserving the virtues of the array-of-arrays representation. We show that our encodings are Nlog₂ N away from the information-theoretic bound, where N is the number of symbols in the grammar, and that they are much smaller than methods that meet the information-theoretic bound in practice. Moreover, our experiments show that by using bit packed encodings we can achieve state-of-the-art performance both in grammar encoding size and run-time performance of random-access queries.
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Alan M. Cleary, Joseph Winjum, Jordan Dood, Hiroki Shibata, and Shunsuke Inenaga. Bit Packed Encodings for Grammar-Compressed Strings Supporting Fast Random Access. In 23rd International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 338, pp. 12:1-12:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{cleary_et_al:LIPIcs.SEA.2025.12,
  author =	{Cleary, Alan M. and Winjum, Joseph and Dood, Jordan and Shibata, Hiroki and Inenaga, Shunsuke},
  title =	{{Bit Packed Encodings for Grammar-Compressed Strings Supporting Fast Random Access}},
  booktitle =	{23rd International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2025)},
  pages =	{12:1--12:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-375-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{338},
  editor =	{Mutzel, Petra and Prezza, Nicola},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SEA.2025.12},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-232506},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SEA.2025.12},
  annote =	{Keywords: String algorithms, data compression, random access, grammar-based compression}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2025.7
Combining Generalization Algorithms in Regular Collapse-Free Theories

Authors: Mauricio Ayala-Rincón, David M. Cerna, Temur Kutsia, and Christophe Ringeissen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 337, 10th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2025)

Abstract
We look at the generalization problem modulo some equational theories. This problem is dual to the unification problem: given two input terms, we want to find a common term whose respective two instances are equivalent to the original terms modulo the theory. There exist algorithms for finding generalizations over various equational theories. We focus on modular construction of equational generalization algorithms for the union of signature-disjoint theories. Specifically, we consider the class of regular and collapse-free theories, showing how to combine existing generalization algorithms to produce specific solutions in these cases. Additionally, we identify a class of theories that admit a generalization algorithm based on the application of axioms to resolve the problem. To define this class, we rely on the notion of syntactic theories, a concept originally introduced to develop unification procedures similar to the one known for syntactic unification. We demonstrate that syntactic theories are also helpful in developing generalization procedures similar to those used for syntactic generalization.
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Mauricio Ayala-Rincón, David M. Cerna, Temur Kutsia, and Christophe Ringeissen. Combining Generalization Algorithms in Regular Collapse-Free Theories. In 10th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 337, pp. 7:1-7:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{ayalarincon_et_al:LIPIcs.FSCD.2025.7,
  author =	{Ayala-Rinc\'{o}n, Mauricio and Cerna, David M. and Kutsia, Temur and Ringeissen, Christophe},
  title =	{{Combining Generalization Algorithms in Regular Collapse-Free Theories}},
  booktitle =	{10th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2025)},
  pages =	{7:1--7:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-374-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{337},
  editor =	{Fern\'{a}ndez, Maribel},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2025.7},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-236228},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2025.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: Generalization, Anti-unification, Equational theories, Combination}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2024.11
A Formalization of the General Theory of Quaternions

Authors: Thaynara Arielly de Lima, André Luiz Galdino, Bruno Berto de Oliveira Ribeiro, and Mauricio Ayala-Rincón

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 309, 15th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2024)

Abstract
This paper discusses the formalization of the theory of quaternions in the Prototype Verification System (PVS). The general approach in this mechanization relies on specifying quaternion structures using any arbitrary field as a parameter. The approach allows the inheritance of formalized properties on quaternions when the parameters of the general theory are instantiated with specific fields such as reals or rationals. The theory includes characterizing algebraic properties that lead to constructing quaternions as division rings. In particular, we illustrate how the general theory is applied to formalize Hamilton’s quaternions using the field of reals as a parameter, for which we also mechanized theorems that show the completeness of three-dimensional rotations, proving that Hamilton’s quaternions mimic any 3D rotation.
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Thaynara Arielly de Lima, André Luiz Galdino, Bruno Berto de Oliveira Ribeiro, and Mauricio Ayala-Rincón. A Formalization of the General Theory of Quaternions. In 15th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 309, pp. 11:1-11:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{delima_et_al:LIPIcs.ITP.2024.11,
  author =	{de Lima, Thaynara Arielly and Galdino, Andr\'{e} Luiz and de Oliveira Ribeiro, Bruno Berto and Ayala-Rinc\'{o}n, Mauricio},
  title =	{{A Formalization of the General Theory of Quaternions}},
  booktitle =	{15th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2024)},
  pages =	{11:1--11:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-337-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{309},
  editor =	{Bertot, Yves and Kutsia, Temur and Norrish, Michael},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2024.11},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-207398},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2024.11},
  annote =	{Keywords: Theory of quaternions, Hamilton’s quaternions, Algebraic formalizations, PVS}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2022.8
A Certified Algorithm for AC-Unification

Authors: Mauricio Ayala-Rincón, Maribel Fernández, Gabriel Ferreira Silva, and Daniele Nantes Sobrinho

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 228, 7th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2022)

Abstract
Implementing unification modulo Associativity and Commutativity (AC) axioms is crucial in rewrite-based programming and theorem provers. We modify Stickel’s seminal AC-unification algorithm to avoid mutual recursion and formalise it in the PVS proof assistant. More precisely, we prove the adjusted algorithm’s termination, soundness, and completeness. To do this, we adapted Fages' termination proof, providing a unique elaborated measure that guarantees termination of the modified AC-unification algorithm. This development (to the best of our knowledge) provides the first fully formalised AC-unification algorithm.
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Mauricio Ayala-Rincón, Maribel Fernández, Gabriel Ferreira Silva, and Daniele Nantes Sobrinho. A Certified Algorithm for AC-Unification. In 7th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 228, pp. 8:1-8:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{ayalarincon_et_al:LIPIcs.FSCD.2022.8,
  author =	{Ayala-Rinc\'{o}n, Mauricio and Fern\'{a}ndez, Maribel and Silva, Gabriel Ferreira and Sobrinho, Daniele Nantes},
  title =	{{A Certified Algorithm for AC-Unification}},
  booktitle =	{7th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2022)},
  pages =	{8:1--8:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-233-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{228},
  editor =	{Felty, Amy P.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2022.8},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-162894},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2022.8},
  annote =	{Keywords: AC-Unification, PVS, Certified Algorithms, Formal Methods, Interactive Theorem Proving}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2021.27
Formal Verification of Termination Criteria for First-Order Recursive Functions

Authors: Cesar A. Muñoz, Mauricio Ayala-Rincón, Mariano M. Moscato, Aaron M. Dutle, Anthony J. Narkawicz, Ariane A. Almeida, Andréia B. Avelar, and Thiago M. Ferreira Ramos

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 193, 12th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2021)

Abstract
This paper presents a formalization of several termination criteria for first-order recursive functions. The formalization, which is developed in the Prototype Verification System (PVS), includes the specification and proof of equivalence of semantic termination, Turing termination, size change principle, calling context graphs, and matrix-weighted graphs. These termination criteria are defined on a computational model that consists of a basic functional language called PVS0, which is an embedding of recursive first-order functions. Through this embedding, the native mechanism for checking termination of recursive functions in PVS could be soundly extended with semi-automatic termination criteria such as calling contexts graphs.
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Cesar A. Muñoz, Mauricio Ayala-Rincón, Mariano M. Moscato, Aaron M. Dutle, Anthony J. Narkawicz, Ariane A. Almeida, Andréia B. Avelar, and Thiago M. Ferreira Ramos. Formal Verification of Termination Criteria for First-Order Recursive Functions. In 12th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 193, pp. 27:1-27:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@InProceedings{munoz_et_al:LIPIcs.ITP.2021.27,
  author =	{Mu\~{n}oz, Cesar A. and Ayala-Rinc\'{o}n, Mauricio and Moscato, Mariano M. and Dutle, Aaron M. and Narkawicz, Anthony J. and Almeida, Ariane A. and Avelar, Andr\'{e}ia B. and M. Ferreira Ramos, Thiago},
  title =	{{Formal Verification of Termination Criteria for First-Order Recursive Functions}},
  booktitle =	{12th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2021)},
  pages =	{27:1--27:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-188-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{193},
  editor =	{Cohen, Liron and Kaliszyk, Cezary},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2021.27},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-139228},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2021.27},
  annote =	{Keywords: Formal Verification, Termination, Calling Context Graph, PVS}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2018.7
Fixed-Point Constraints for Nominal Equational Unification

Authors: Mauricio Ayala-Rincón, Maribel Fernández, and Daniele Nantes-Sobrinho

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 108, 3rd International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2018)

Abstract
We propose a new axiomatisation of the alpha-equivalence relation for nominal terms, based on a primitive notion of fixed-point constraint. We show that the standard freshness relation between atoms and terms can be derived from the more primitive notion of permutation fixed-point, and use this result to prove the correctness of the new alpha-equivalence axiomatisation. This gives rise to a new notion of nominal unification, where solutions for unification problems are pairs of a fixed-point context and a substitution. Although it may seem less natural than the standard notion of nominal unifier based on freshness constraints, the notion of unifier based on fixed-point constraints behaves better when equational theories are considered: for example, nominal unification remains finitary in the presence of commutativity, whereas it becomes infinitary when unifiers are expressed using freshness contexts.
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Mauricio Ayala-Rincón, Maribel Fernández, and Daniele Nantes-Sobrinho. Fixed-Point Constraints for Nominal Equational Unification. In 3rd International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 108, pp. 7:1-7:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)

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@InProceedings{ayalarincon_et_al:LIPIcs.FSCD.2018.7,
  author =	{Ayala-Rinc\'{o}n, Mauricio and Fern\'{a}ndez, Maribel and Nantes-Sobrinho, Daniele},
  title =	{{Fixed-Point Constraints for Nominal Equational Unification}},
  booktitle =	{3rd International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2018)},
  pages =	{7:1--7:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-077-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{108},
  editor =	{Kirchner, H\'{e}l\`{e}ne},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2018.7},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-91777},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2018.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: nominal terms, fixed-point equations, nominal unification, equational theories}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2016.11
Nominal Narrowing

Authors: Mauricio Ayala-Rincón, Maribel Fernández, and Daniele Nantes-Sobrinho

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 52, 1st International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2016)

Abstract
Nominal unification is a generalisation of first-order unification that takes alpha-equivalence into account. In this paper, we study nominal unification in the context of equational theories. We introduce nominal narrowing and design a general nominal E-unification procedure, which is sound and complete for a wide class of equational theories. We give examples of application.
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Mauricio Ayala-Rincón, Maribel Fernández, and Daniele Nantes-Sobrinho. Nominal Narrowing. In 1st International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 52, pp. 11:1-11:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)

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@InProceedings{ayalarincon_et_al:LIPIcs.FSCD.2016.11,
  author =	{Ayala-Rinc\'{o}n, Mauricio and Fern\'{a}ndez, Maribel and Nantes-Sobrinho, Daniele},
  title =	{{Nominal Narrowing}},
  booktitle =	{1st International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2016)},
  pages =	{11:1--11:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-010-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{52},
  editor =	{Kesner, Delia and Pientka, Brigitte},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2016.11},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-59832},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2016.11},
  annote =	{Keywords: Nominal Rewriting, Nominal Unification, Matching, Narrowing, Equational Theories}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2014.391
Metaconfluence of Calculi with Explicit Substitutions at a Distance

Authors: Flávio L. C. de Moura, Delia Kesner, and Mauricio Ayala-Rincón

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 29, 34th International Conference on Foundation of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2014)

Abstract
Confluence is a key property of rewriting calculi that guarantees uniqueness of normal-forms when they exist. Metaconfluence is even more general, and guarantees confluence on open/meta terms, i.e. terms with holes, called metavariables that can be filled up with other (open/meta) terms. The difficulty to deal with open terms comes from the fact that the structure of metaterms is only partially known, so that some reduction rules became blocked by the metavariables. In this work, we establish metaconfluence for a family of calculi with explicit substitutions (ES) that enjoy preservation of strong-normalization (PSN) and that act at a distance. For that, we first extend the notion of reduction on metaterms in such a way that explicit substitutions are never structurally moved, i.e. they also act at a distance on metaterms. The resulting reduction relations are still rewriting systems, i.e. they do not include equational axioms, thus providing for the first time an interesting family of lambda-calculi with explicit substitutions that enjoy both PSN and metaconfluence without requiring sophisticated notions of reduction modulo a set of equations.
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Flávio L. C. de Moura, Delia Kesner, and Mauricio Ayala-Rincón. Metaconfluence of Calculi with Explicit Substitutions at a Distance. In 34th International Conference on Foundation of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2014). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 29, pp. 391-402, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2014)

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@InProceedings{demoura_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2014.391,
  author =	{de Moura, Fl\'{a}vio L. C. and Kesner, Delia and Ayala-Rinc\'{o}n, Mauricio},
  title =	{{Metaconfluence of Calculi with Explicit Substitutions at a  Distance}},
  booktitle =	{34th International Conference on Foundation of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2014)},
  pages =	{391--402},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-77-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2014},
  volume =	{29},
  editor =	{Raman, Venkatesh and Suresh, S. P.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2014.391},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-48588},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2014.391},
  annote =	{Keywords: Confluence, Explicit Substitutions, Lambda Calculi}
}
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