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Charles G. Nelson

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0since 2021 · last 1978
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Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1 · 1 first-author

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Theoretical computer science
1 paper
Automated reasoning and model checking · 50% Logic in computer science · 50%
Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper
Programming languages and type systems · 100%

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TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Logic in computer science › rewriting
canonical form
0.011978
A Simplifier Based on Efficient Decision Algorithms · POPL 1978
Automated reasoning and model checking
decision procedures
0.011978
A Simplifier Based on Efficient Decision Algorithms · POPL 1978
Programming languages and type systems
program manipulation
0.011978
A Simplifier Based on Efficient Decision Algorithms · POPL 1978

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satisfiability checking · 0.0decision algorithm · 0.0
YearPublicationVenuePosition
1978 A Simplifier Based on Efficient Decision Algorithms
abstract
We describe a simplifier for use in program manipulation and verification. The simplifier finds a normal form for any expression over the language consisting of individual variables, the usual boolean connectives, the conditional function cond (denoting if-then-else), the integers (numerals), the arithmetic functions and predicates +, - and ≤, the LISP constants, functions and predicates nil, car, cdr, cons and atom, the functions store and select for storing into and selecting from arrays, and uninterpreted function symbols. Individual variables range over the union of the rationals, the set of arrays, the LISP s-expressions and the booleans true and false. The constant, function and predicate symbols take their natural interpretations.The simplifier is complete; that is, it simplifies every valid formula to true. Thus it is also a decision procedure for the quantifier-free theory of rationals, arrays and s-expressions under the above functions and predicates.The organization of the simplifier is based on a method for combining decision algorithms for several theories into a single decision algorithm for a larger theory containing the original theories. More precisely, given a set S of functions and predicates over a fixed domain, a satisfiability program for S is a program which determines the satisfiability of conjunctions of literals (signed atomic formulas) whose predicates and function signs are in S. We give a general procedure for combining satisfiability programs for sets S and T into a single satisfiability program for S ∪ T, given certain conditions on S and T. We show how a satisfiability program for a set S can be used to write a complete simplifier for expressions containing functions and predicates of S as well as uninterpreted function symbols.The simplifier described in this paper is currently used in the Stanford Pascal Verifier.
Charles G. Nelson, Derek C. Oppen
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