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Article Dans Une Revue ACM Transactions on Computational Logic Année : 2003

Deciding the Confluence of Ordered Term Rewrite Systems

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A term rewrite system (TRS) terminates if, and only if, its rules are contained in a reduction ordering $>$. In order to deal with {\em any\/} set of equations, including inherently non-terminating ones (like commutativity), TRS have been generalized to {\em ordered\/} TRS $(E,>)$, where equations of $E$ are applied in whatever direction agrees with $>$. The confluence of terminating TRS is well-known to be decidable, but for ordered TRS the decidability of confluence has been open. Here we show that the confluence of ordered TRS is decidable if $>$ belongs to a large class of path orderings (including most practical orderings like LPO, MPO, RPO (with status), KNS and RDO), since then {\em ordering constraints\/} for $>$ can be solved in an adequate way. For ordered TRS $(E,>)$ where $E$ consists of {\em constrained equations\/}, confluence is shown to be undecidable. Finally, also {\em ground reducibility\/} is proved undecidable for ordered TRS.

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inria-00099508 , version 1 (26-09-2006)

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Hubert Comon-Lundh, Paliath Narendran, Robert Nieuwenhuis, Michaël Rusinowitch. Deciding the Confluence of Ordered Term Rewrite Systems. ACM Transactions on Computational Logic, 2003, 4 (1), pp.33-55. ⟨10.1145/601775.601777⟩. ⟨inria-00099508⟩
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