Fitting Semantics for Conditional Term Rewriting

Abstract

Abstract: This paper investigates the semantics of conditional term rewriting systems with negation which do not satisfy useful properties like termination. It is shown that the approach used by Fitting [5] for Prolog-style logic programs is applicable in this context. A monotone operator is developed, whose fixpoints describe the semantics of conditional rewriting. Several examples illustrate this semantics for non-terminating rewrite systems which could not be easily handled by previous approaches. 1

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Text

Mohan. "Fitting Semantics for Conditional Term Rewriting." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1991.

Markdown

[Mohan. "Fitting Semantics for Conditional Term Rewriting." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1991.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1991/mohan1991ijcai-fitting/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{mohan1991ijcai-fitting,
  title     = {{Fitting Semantics for Conditional Term Rewriting}},
  author    = {Mohan, Chilukuri K.},
  booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {1991},
  pages     = {857-862},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1991/mohan1991ijcai-fitting/}
}