Incremental Checking of Well-Founded Recursive Specifications Modulo Axioms

We introduce the notion of well-founded recursive order-sorted equational logic (OS) theories modulo axioms. Such theories define functions by well-founded recursion and are inherently terminating. Moreover, for well-founded recursive theories important properties such as confluence and sufficient completeness are modular for so-called fair extensions. This enables us to incrementally check these properties for hierarchies of such theories that occur naturally in modular rule-based functional programs. Well-founded recursive OS theories modulo axioms contain only commutativity and associativity-commutativity axioms. In order to support arbitrary combinations of associativity, commutativity and identity axioms, we show how to eliminate identity and (under certain conditions) associativity (without commutativity) axioms by theory transformations in the last part of the paper

Twenty years of rewriting logic

AbstractRewriting logic is a simple computational logic that can naturally express both concurrent computation and logical deduction with great generality. This paper provides a gentle, intuitive introduction to its main ideas, as well as a survey of the work that many researchers have carried out over the last twenty years in advancing: (i) its foundations; (ii) its semantic framework and logical framework uses; (iii) its language implementations and its formal tools; and (iv) its many applications to automated deduction, software and hardware specification and verification, security, real-time and cyber-physical systems, probabilistic systems, bioinformatics and chemical systems