Towards correctness of program transformations through unification and critical pair computation

  • Correctness of program transformations in extended lambda calculi with a contextual semantics is usually based on reasoning about the operational semantics which is a rewrite semantics. A successful approach to proving correctness is the combination of a context lemma with the computation of overlaps between program transformations and the reduction rules, and then of so-called complete sets of diagrams. The method is similar to the computation of critical pairs for the completion of term rewriting systems.We explore cases where the computation of these overlaps can be done in a first order way by variants of critical pair computation that use unification algorithms. As a case study we apply the method to a lambda calculus with recursive let-expressions and describe an effective unification algorithm to determine all overlaps of a set of transformations with all reduction rules. The unification algorithm employs many-sorted terms, the equational theory of left-commutativity modelling multi-sets, context variables of different kinds and a mechanism for compactly representing binding chains in recursive let-expressions.

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Author:Conrad Rau, Manfred Schmidt-SchaußORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-344393
URL:http://www.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/papers/frank/frank-41.pdf
Parent Title (English):Technical report Frank / Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität, Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik, Institut für Informatik ; 41
Series (Serial Number):Technical report Frank / Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität, Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik, Institut für Informatik (41 [v.2])
Publisher:Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Univ., Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik, Inst. für Informatik
Place of publication:Frankfurt am Main
Document Type:Working Paper
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2011/01/12
Date of first Publication:2011/01/12
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2014/07/08
Issue:Version: 12 Januar 2011
Page Number:26
Last Page:26
HeBIS-PPN:344379833
Institutes:Informatik und Mathematik / Informatik
Dewey Decimal Classification:0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht