Termination of rewriting and its certification

A. Koprowski

    Research output: ThesisPhd Thesis 1 (Research TU/e / Graduation TU/e)

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    Abstract

    In programming, termination of a program/algorithm means that its evaluation will eventually terminate, regardless of the input it receives. It is an important property and is required for total correctness. In general the problem is undecid- able. Term rewriting is a formal way of specifying computation and as such it can be seen as a generic model for programming languages. Termination, here meaning lack of infinite sequences, is a well-studied concept in this context. There exist a number of methods for proving termination as well as a number of tools for doing that automatically. There is an on-going work on application of this methodology and tools to proving termination of programs in actual programming languages. In this thesis we first give a short introduction to term rewriting and to termination of rewriting. Subsequently we present a number of contributions to this field, which can be categorized into the following categories: proposing new methods for proving termination and refining the existing ones, developing a tool for proving termination and proposing a methodology and tools for certification of termination proofs, i.e., formal verification of proofs produced by the existing tools for proving termination.
    Original languageEnglish
    QualificationDoctor of Philosophy
    Awarding Institution
    • Mathematics and Computer Science
    Supervisors/Advisors
    • Zantema, Hans, Promotor
    • Groote, Jan Friso, Promotor
    Award date25 Sept 2008
    Place of PublicationEindhoven
    Publisher
    Print ISBNs978-90-386-1377-2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2008

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