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Kleene algebra (KA) is an important tool for reasoning about general program equivalences, with a decidable and complete equational theory. However, KA cannot always prove equivalences between specific programs. For this purpose, one adds…

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We propose semiringKanren, a relational programming language where each relation expression denotes a semiring array. We formalize a type system that restricts the arrays to finite size. We then define a semantics that is parameterized by…

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