Non-Structural Subtype Entailment in Automata Theory
| Title: | Non-Structural Subtype Entailment in Automata Theory |
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| Authors: | Joachim Niehren; Tim Priesnitz |
| Contributors: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Source: | http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/Papers/abstracts/subtype.pdf. |
| Publication Year: | 2003 |
| Collection: | CiteSeerX |
| Description: | Decidability of non-structural subtype entailment is a long-standing open problem in programming language theory. In this paper, we apply automata theoretic methods to characterize the problem equivalently by using regular expressions and word equations. This characterization induces new results on non-structural subtype entailment, constitutes a promising starting point for further investigations on decidability, and explains for the first time why the problem is so difficult. The difficulty is caused by implicit word equations that we make explicit. |
| Document Type: | text |
| File Description: | application/pdf |
| Language: | English |
| Relation: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.139.5116 |
| Availability: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.139.5116; http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/Papers/abstracts/subtype.pdf |
| Rights: | Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
| Accession Number: | edsbas.B36DAD5C |
| Database: | BASE |