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PREG Axiomatizer is a tool used for proving strong bisimilarity between ground terms consisting of operations in the GSOS format extended with predicates. It automatically derives sound and ground-complete axiomatizations using a technique proposed by the authors of this paper. These axiomatizations are provided as input to the Maude system, which, in turn, is used as a reduction engine for provided ground terms. These terms are bisimilar if and only if their normal forms obtained in this fashion are equal. The motivation of this tool is the optimized handling of equivalence checking between complex ground terms within automated provers and checkers.
The authors have been been partially supported by the projects “New Developments in Operational Semantics” (nr. 080039021) and “Meta-theory of Algebraic Process Theories” (nr. 100014021) of the Icelandic Fund for Research. Eugen-Ioan Goriac is supported by the doctoral grant “Extending and Axiomatizing Structural Operational Semantics: Theory and Tools” (nr. 110294-0061) of the Icelandic Fund for Research.
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Aceto, L., Caltais, G., Goriac, EI., Ingolfsdottir, A. (2011). PREG Axiomatizer – A Ground Bisimilarity Checker for GSOS with Predicates. In: Corradini, A., Klin, B., Cîrstea, C. (eds) Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science. CALCO 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6859. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22944-2_27
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