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We investigate the unification problem in theories defined by rewrite systems which are both convergent and forward-closed. These theories are also known in the context of protocol analysis as theories with the finite variant property and admit a variant-based unification algorithm. In this paper, we present a new rule-based unification algorithm which can be seen as an alternative to the variant-based approach. In addition, we define forward-closed combination to capture the union of a forward-closed convergent rewrite system with another theory, such as the Associativity-Commutativity, whose function symbols may occur in right-hand sides of the rewrite system. Finally, we present a combination algorithm for this particular class of non-disjoint unions of theories.
C. Ringeissen—This work has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the H2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No. 645865-SPOOC).
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Eeralla, A.K., Erbatur, S., Marshall, A.M., Ringeissen, C. (2019). Rule-Based Unification in Combined Theories and the Finite Variant Property. In: Martín-Vide, C., Okhotin, A., Shapira, D. (eds) Language and Automata Theory and Applications. LATA 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11417. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13435-8_26
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