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Title A total, ground path ordering for proving termination of AC-rewrite systems
 
Names KAPUR, D
SIVAKUMAR, G
Date Issued 1997 (iso8601)
Abstract A new path ordering for showing termination of associative-commutative (AC) rewrite systems is defined. If the precedence relation on function symbols is total, the ordering is total on ground terms, but unlike the ordering proposed by Rubio and Nieuwenhuis, this ordering can orient the distributivity property in the proper direction. The ordering is defined in a natural way using recursive path ordering with status as the underlying basis. This settles a longstanding problem in termination orderings for AC rewrite systems. The ordering can be used to define an ordering on nonground terms.
Genre Article; Proceedings Paper
Identifier REWRITING TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS,1232,142-156