Carsten Fuhs, Jürgen Giesl, Martin Plücker, Peter Schneider-Kamp, and Stephan Falke:
Proving Termination of Integer Term Rewriting
In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA '09), Brasília, Brazil.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5595, pages 32-47, 2009. ©Springer-Verlag
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.
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