Inferring Termination Conditions for Logic Programs using Backwards Analysis
Programming Languages
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
This paper focuses on the inference of modes for which a logic program is guaranteed to terminate. This generalises traditional termination analysis where an analyser tries to verify termination for a specified mode. Our contribution is a methodology in which components of traditional termination analysis are combined with backwards analysis to obtain an analyser for termination inference. We identify a condition on the components of the analyser which guarantees that termination inference will infer all modes which can be checked to terminate. The application of this methodology to enhance a traditional termination analyser to perform also termination inference is demonstrated.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cs/0312023,
title = {Inferring Termination Conditions for Logic Programs using Backwards Analysis},
author = {Samir Genaim and Michael Codish},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0312023},
year = {2007}
}