E-Generalization Using Grammars

We extend the notion of anti-unification to cover equational theories and present a method based on regular tree grammars to compute a finite representation of E-generalization sets. We present a framework to combine Inductive Logic Programming and E-generalization that includes an extension of Plotkin's lgg theorem to the equational case. We demonstrate the potential power of E-generalization by three example applications: computation of suggestions for auxiliary lemmas in equational inductive proofs, computation of construction laws for given term sequences, and learning of screen editor command sequences.Comment: 49 pages, 16 figures, author address given in header is meanwhile outdated, full version of an article in the "Artificial Intelligence Journal", appeared as technical report in 2003. An open-source C implementation and some examples are found at the Ancillary file

The Algebraic Intersection Type Unification Problem

The algebraic intersection type unification problem is an important component in proof search related to several natural decision problems in intersection type systems. It is unknown and remains open whether the algebraic intersection type unification problem is decidable. We give the first nontrivial lower bound for the problem by showing (our main result) that it is exponential time hard. Furthermore, we show that this holds even under rank 1 solutions (substitutions whose codomains are restricted to contain rank 1 types). In addition, we provide a fixed-parameter intractability result for intersection type matching (one-sided unification), which is known to be NP-complete. We place the algebraic intersection type unification problem in the context of unification theory. The equational theory of intersection types can be presented as an algebraic theory with an ACI (associative, commutative, and idempotent) operator (intersection type) combined with distributivity properties with respect to a second operator (function type). Although the problem is algebraically natural and interesting, it appears to occupy a hitherto unstudied place in the theory of unification, and our investigation of the problem suggests that new methods are required to understand the problem. Thus, for the lower bound proof, we were not able to reduce from known results in ACI-unification theory and use game-theoretic methods for two-player tiling games

Rewriting Modulo SMT and Open System Analysis

This paper proposes rewriting modulo SMT, a new technique that combines the power of SMT solving, rewriting modulo theories, and model checking. Rewriting modulo SMT is ideally suited to model and analyze reachability properties of infinite-state open systems, i.e., systems that interact with a nondeterministic environment. Such systems exhibit both internal nondeterminism, which is proper to the system, and external nondeterminism, which is due to the environment. In a reflective formalism, such as rewriting logic, rewriting modulo SMT can be reduced to standard rewriting. Hence, rewriting modulo SMT naturally extends rewriting-based reachability analysis techniques, which are available for closed systems, to open systems. The proposed technique is illustrated with the formal analysis of: (i) a real-time system that is beyond the scope of timed-automata methods and (ii) automatic detection of reachability violations in a synchronous language developed to support autonomous spacecraft operations.NSF Grant CNS 13-19109 and NASA Research Cooperative Agreement No. NNL09AA00AOpe

Order-Sorted Unification with Regular Expression Sorts

We extend first-order order-sorted unification by permitting regular expression sorts for variables and in the domains of function symbols. The set of basic sorts is finite. The obtained signature corresponds to a finite bottom-up hedge automaton. The unification problem in such a theory generalizes some known unification problems. Its unification type is infinitary. We give a complete unification procedure and prove decidability

Finite Countermodel Based Verification for Program Transformation (A Case Study)

Both automatic program verification and program transformation are based on program analysis. In the past decade a number of approaches using various automatic general-purpose program transformation techniques (partial deduction, specialization, supercompilation) for verification of unreachability properties of computing systems were introduced and demonstrated. On the other hand, the semantics based unfold-fold program transformation methods pose themselves diverse kinds of reachability tasks and try to solve them, aiming at improving the semantics tree of the program being transformed. That means some general-purpose verification methods may be used for strengthening program transformation techniques. This paper considers the question how finite countermodels for safety verification method might be used in Turchin's supercompilation method. We extract a number of supercompilation sub-algorithms trying to solve reachability problems and demonstrate use of an external countermodel finder for solving some of the problems.Comment: In Proceedings VPT 2015, arXiv:1512.0221

Constrained narrowing for conditional equational theories modulo axioms

For an unconditional equational theory (Sigma, E) whose oriented equations (E) over arrow are confluent and terminating, narrowing provides an E-unification algorithm. This has been generalized by various authors in two directions: (i) by considering unconditional equational theories (Sigma, E boolean OR B) where the (E) over arrow are confluent, terminating and coherent modulo axioms B, and (ii) by considering conditional equational theories. Narrowing for a conditional theory (Sigma, E boolean OR B) has also been studied, but much less and with various restrictions. In this paper we extend these prior results by allowing conditional equations with extra variables in their conditions, provided the corresponding rewrite rules (E) over arrow are confluent, strictly coherent, operationally terminating modulo B and satisfy a natural determinism condition allowing incremental computation of matching substitutions for their extra variables. We also generalize the type structure of the types and operations in Sigma to be order-sorted. The narrowing method we propose, called constrained narrowing, treats conditions as constraints whose solution is postponed. This can greatly reduce the search space of narrowing and allows notions such as constrained variant and constrained unifier that can cover symbolically possibly infinite sets of actual variants and unifiers. It also supports a hierarchical method of solving constraints. We give an inference system for hierarchical constrained narrowing modulo B and prove its soundness and completeness. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.We thank the anonymous referees for their constructive criticism and their very detailed and helpful suggestions for improving an earlier version of this work. We also thank Luis Aguirre for kindly giving us additional suggestions to improve the text. This work has been partially supported by NSF Grant CNS 13-19109 and by the EU (FEDER) and the Spanish MINECO under grant TIN 2013-45732-C4-1-P, and by Generalitat Valenciana PROMETEOII/2015/013.Cholewa, A.; Escobar Román, S.; Meseguer, J. (2015). Constrained narrowing for conditional equational theories modulo axioms. Science of Computer Programming. 112:24-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scico.2015.06.001S245711

Rewriting Modulo SMT

Combining symbolic techniques such as: (i) SMT solving, (ii) rewriting modulo theories, and (iii) model checking can enable the analysis of infinite-state systems outside the scope of each such technique. This paper proposes rewriting modulo SMT as a new technique combining the powers of (i)-(iii) and ideally suited to model and analyze infinite-state open systems; that is, systems that interact with a non-deterministic environment. Such systems exhibit both internal non-determinism due to the system, and external non-determinism due to the environment. They are not amenable to finite-state model checking analysis because they typically are infinite-state. By being reducible to standard rewriting using reflective techniques, rewriting modulo SMT can both naturally model and analyze open systems without requiring any changes to rewriting-based reachability analysis techniques for closed systems. This is illustrated by the analysis of a real-time system beyond the scope of timed automata methods

Proceedings of Sixth International Workshop on Unification

Swiss National Science Foundation; Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB 314); Christ Church, Oxford; Oxford University Computing Laborator