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Proving Termination of Integer Term Rewriting

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Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA 2009)

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When using rewrite techniques for termination analysis of programs, a main problem are pre-defined data types like integers. We extend term rewriting by built-in integers and adapt the dependency pair framework to prove termination of integer term rewriting automatically.

Supported by the DFG grant GI 274/5-2 and by the G.I.F. grant 966-116.6.

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  1. LuFG Informatik 2, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

    Carsten Fuhs, Jürgen Giesl & Martin Plücker

  2. Dept. of Mathematics & CS, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

    Peter Schneider-Kamp

  3. CS Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

    Stephan Falke

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Fuhs, C., Giesl, J., Plücker, M., Schneider-Kamp, P., Falke, S. (2009). Proving Termination of Integer Term Rewriting. In: Treinen, R. (eds) Rewriting Techniques and Applications. RTA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5595. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02348-4_3

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