README.md

canonical-trs

purpose

canonical-trs is a tool that takes a TRS and transforms it into a canonical form which is invariant under permutation of rules and renaming of function symbols.

Such a canonical form used to efficiently identify equivalent TRSs.

Note that the output will change between versions.

example

# canonical-trs canonical-trs cops1.trs
(COMMENT produced by canonical-trs 0.0.1)
(VAR
v0
v1
)
(RULES
f0(f1(v0)
,v0) ->
f0(v0
,f1(v0))
f0(f2(v0)
,v0) ->
f0(v0
,f2(v0))
f3(v0
,v1) ->
v0
f3(v0
,v1) ->
f3(v0
,f2(v1))
f2(v0) ->
f1(v0)
)

capabilities

• WST format
• XTC format

requirements

all dependencies are available from Hackage

building

canonical-trs can be built with the cabal-install tool, which can be obtained in several ways; one is to install the Haskell Platform

cabal update       # update cabal-install package database
cabal sandbox init # optional, keeps all files local
cabal install      # build everything including dependencies
cabal exec -- canonical-trs cops1.trs     # execute locally
cp .cabal-sandbox/bin/canonical-trs ~/bin # copy binary elsewhere
rm -r dist && cabal sandbox delete        # clean up build artifacts

wishlist

• support for HRS and CTRS
• support for permutation of function arguments (hard)