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Inferring Termination Conditions for Logic Programs using Backwards AnalysisSamir Genaim and Michael Codish
Theory and Practice of Logic Programming;
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2004
Abstract:This paper focuses on the inference of modes for which a logic program is guaranteed to terminate. This generalises traditional termination analysis where an analyser tries to verify termination for a specified mode. Our contribution is a methodology in which components of traditional termination analysis are combined with backwards analysis to obtain an analyser for termination inference. We identify a condition on the components of the analyser which guarantees that termination inference will infer all modes which can be checked to terminate. The application of this methodology to enhance a traditional termination analyser to perform also termination inference is demonstrated.Available: bibtex entry postscript Related sites: conference version Michael Codish The Department of Computer Science Ben-Gurion University of the Negev PoB 653, Beer-Sheva, 84105, Israel mcodish@cs.bgu.ac.il
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