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The problem of determining whether a probabilistic program terminates almost surely (i.e.~with probability one) is undecidable, and actually $\Pi^0_2$-complete. For this reason, a growing literature has explored classes of programs for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Ugo Dal Lago , Guido Fiorillo , Paolo Pistone

This Survey provides an overview of techniques in termination analysis for programs with numerical variables and transitions defined by linear constraints. This subarea of program analysis is challenging due to the existence of undecidable…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Amir M. Ben-Amram , Samir Genaim , Joël Ouaknine , James Worrell

This paper studies Linear Temporal Logic over Finite Traces (LTLf) where proposition letters are replaced with first-order formulas interpreted over arbitrary theories, in the spirit of Satisfiability Modulo Theories. The resulting logic,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Luca Geatti , Alessandro Gianola , Nicola Gigante

We present and formalize h, a core (or "plank") calculus that can serve as the foundation for several compiler specification languages, notably CRSX (Combinatory Reductions Systems with eXtensions), HACS (Higher-order Attribute Contraction…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Cynthia Kop , Kristoffer Rose

While there are many approaches for automatically proving termination of term rewrite systems, up to now there exist only few techniques to disprove their termination automatically. Almost all of these techniques try to find loops, where…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-12-30 René Thiemann , Christian Sternagel , Jürgen Giesl , Peter Schneider-Kamp

In the last two decades, there has been much progress on model checking of both probabilistic systems and higher-order programs. In spite of the emergence of higher-order probabilistic programming languages, not much has been done to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Naoki Kobayashi , Ugo Dal Lago , Charles Grellois

Qualification has been recently introduced as a generalization of uncertainty in the field of Logic Programming. In this report we investigate a more expressive language for First-Order Functional Logic Programming with Constraints and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-01-12 Rafael Caballero , Mario Rodríguez-Artalejo , Carlos A. Romero-Díaz

The characterisation of termination using well-founded monotone algebras has been a milestone on the way to automated termination techniques, of which we have seen an extensive development over the past years. Both the semantic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Joerg Endrullis , Roel de Vrijer , Johannes Waldmann

Streams are infinite sequences over a given data type. A stream specification is a set of equations intended to define a stream. We propose a transformation from such a stream specification to a term rewriting system (TRS) in such a way…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Hans H Zantema

Non-confluent and non-terminating constructor-based term rewrite systems are useful for the purpose of specification and programming. In particular, existing functional logic languages use such kind of rewrite systems to define possibly…

Terminological knowledge representation systems (TKRSs) are tools for designing and using knowledge bases that make use of terminological languages (or concept languages). We analyze from a theoretical point of view a TKRS whose…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-11-17 M. Buchheit , F. M. Donini , A. Schaerf

The scope of this work is the constraint-based synthesis of termination arguments for the restricted class of programs called linear lasso programs. A termination argument consists of a ranking function as well as a set of supporting…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Jan Leike

Rewriting is a formalism widely used in computer science and mathematical logic. The classical formalism has been extended, in the context of functional languages, with an order over the rules and, in the context of rewrite based languages,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Horatiu Cirstea , Pierre-Etienne Moreau

Constraint Handling Rules (CHR) is a high-level programming language based on multi-headed multiset rewrite rules. Originally designed for writing user-defined constraint solvers, it is now recognized as an elegant general purpose language.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2009-06-25 Jon Sneyers , Peter Van Weert , Tom Schrijvers , Leslie De Koninck

This paper presents LEXR, a framework for explaining the decision making of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) using a formal description language called Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). LTL is the de facto standard for the specification of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Bishwamittra Ghosh , Daniel Neider

We present a methodology for proving termination of left-linear term rewriting systems (TRSs) by using Albert Burroni's polygraphs, a kind of rewriting systems on algebraic circuits. We translate the considered TRS into a polygraph of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Yves Guiraud

In this paper, we define two particular forms of non-termination, namely loops and binary chains, in an abstract framework that encompasses term rewriting and logic programming. The definition of loops relies on the notion of compatibility…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Etienne Payet

Conditional term rewriting is an intuitive yet complex extension of term rewriting. In order to benefit from the simpler framework of unconditional rewriting, transformations have been defined to eliminate the conditions of conditional term…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Karl Gmeiner

The rise of multi-paradigm languages challenges traditional classification methods, leading to practical software engineering issues like interoperability defects. This systematic literature review (SLR) maps the formal foundations of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Mikel Vandeloise

The overall goal of this paper is to investigate the theoretical foundations of algorithmic verification techniques for first order linear logic specifications. The fragment of linear logic we consider in this paper is based on the linear…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 M. Bozzano , G. Delzanno , M. Martelli