22nd Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2007) Higher-Order Matching, Games and Automata Wroclaw, Poland July 10-July 14 ISBN: 0-7695-2908-9
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/LICS.2007.23
Higher-order matching is the problem given t = u where t, u are terms of simply typed \lambda-calculus and u is closed, is there a substitution \theta such that t\theta and u have the same normal form with respect to \beta \eta-equality: can t be pattern matched to u? This paper considers the question: can we characterize the set of all solution terms to a matching problem? We provide an automata-theoretic account that is relative to resource: given a matching problem and a finite set of variables and constants, the (possibly infinite) set of terms that are built from those components and that solve the problem is regular. The characterization uses standard bottom-up tree automata.
Citation:
Colin Stirling, "Higher-Order Matching, Games and Automata," lics, pp.326-335, 22nd Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2007), 2007 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||