2005 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Leanest Quasi-orderings
Preliminary Version
verfasst von : Nachum Dershowitz, E. Castedo Ellerman
Erschienen in: Term Rewriting and Applications
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Aktivieren Sie unsere intelligente Suche, um passende Fachinhalte oder Patente zu finden.
Wählen Sie Textabschnitte aus um mit Künstlicher Intelligenz passenden Patente zu finden. powered by
Markieren Sie Textabschnitte, um KI-gestützt weitere passende Inhalte zu finden. powered by
A convenient method for defining a quasi-ordering, such as those used for proving termination of rewriting, is to choose the minimum of a set of quasi-orderings satisfying some desired traits. Unfortunately, a minimum in terms of set inclusion can be non-existent even when an intuitive “minimum” exists. We suggest an alternative to set inclusion, called “leanness”, show that leanness is a partial ordering of quasi-orderings, and provide sufficient conditions for the existence of a “leanest” ordering.