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We present initial limit Datalog, a new extensible class of constrained Horn clauses for which the satisfiability problem is decidable. The class may be viewed as a generalisation to higher-order logic (with a simple restriction on types)…
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We report on work in progress on automatic procedures for proving properties of programs written in higher-order functional languages. Our approach encodes higher-order programs directly as first-order SMT problems over Horn clauses. It is…
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Given a sequence $\{\Pi_n\}$ of Horn logic programs, the limit $\Pi$ of $\{\Pi_n\}$ is the set of the clauses such that every clause in $\Pi$ belongs to almost every $\Pi_n$ and every clause in infinitely many $\Pi_n$'s belongs to $\Pi$…