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Worst-Case Groundness Analysis using Positive Boolean Functions
The Journal of Logic Programming;
41 (1): 125--128,
1999
Abstract:This note illustrates a theoretical worst-case scenario for groundness analyses obtained through abstract interpretation over the abstract domain of positive Boolean functions. A sequence of programs is given for which any Pos-based abstract interpretation for groundness analysis follows an exponential chain. Another sequence of programs is given for which a state-of-the-art implementation based on ROBDDs gives a result of exponential size in only three iterations. The moral of the story is that a serious Pos analyser must incorporate some form of widening to protect itself from the inherent complexity of the underlying domain.Available: bibtex entry compressed postscript Related sites: PDF from the publisher PDF from Scirus - scientific search engine 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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