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cTI: a constraint-based termination inference tool for ISO-Prolog
We present cTI, the first system for universal left-termination inference of logic programs. Termination inference generalizes termination analysis and checking. Traditionally, a termination analyzer tries to prove that a given class of queries terminates. This class must be provided to the system,...
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Published in: | Theory and practice of logic programming 2005-01, Vol.5 (1-2), p.243-257 |
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Main Authors: | , |
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Language: | English |
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Summary: | We present cTI, the first system for universal left-termination inference of logic programs. Termination inference generalizes termination analysis and checking. Traditionally, a termination analyzer tries to prove that a given class of queries terminates. This class must be provided to the system, for instance by means of user annotations. Moreover, the analysis must be redone every time the class of queries of interest is updated. Termination inference, in contrast, requires neither user annotations nor recomputation. In this approach, terminating classes for all predicates are inferred at once. We describe the architecture of cTI and report an extensive experimental evaluation of the system covering many classical examples from the logic programming termination literature and several Prolog programs of respectable size and complexity. |
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ISSN: | 1471-0684 1475-3081 |
DOI: | 10.1017/S1471068404002017 |