Universal Unification and Regular Equational ACFM Theories

Abstract

these theorems generate a complete minimal set of uni f iers (of matchers) and termination of the mat-ching algorithm is shown. For nonregular ACFM theories the matching algorithm may not terminate and we suspect that uniform ter-mination is unattainable. Since most known special purpose uni f icat ion algo-rithms are based on regular ACFM theories and since this class allows for a comparatively simple un i-versal un i f icat ion algorithm, we believe th is class may come to play a prominent role (simi lar to cer-ta in classes, l i ke SLR(l), in formal language theo-ry). On the other hand, the 'abstract ' universal algo-rithm does not represent a practical solution for

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Text

Siekmann and Szabó. "Universal Unification and Regular Equational ACFM Theories." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1981.

Markdown

[Siekmann and Szabó. "Universal Unification and Regular Equational ACFM Theories." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1981.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1981/siekmann1981ijcai-universal/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{siekmann1981ijcai-universal,
  title     = {{Universal Unification and Regular Equational ACFM Theories}},
  author    = {Siekmann, Jörg H. and Szabó, Peter},
  booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {1981},
  pages     = {532-538},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1981/siekmann1981ijcai-universal/}
}