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On Solving Word Equations via Program Transformation

2020/07/23 by Antonina Nepeivoda, Nepeivoda, Antonina
Computer Science · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO) #Programming Languages (cs.PL) #Software Engineering Research #Software Testing and Debugging Techniques #Web Application Security Vulnerabilities

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2007.12247

openalex publication_date 2020/07/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

The paper presents an experiment of solving word equations via specialization of a configuration WE(R,E), where the program WE can be considered as an interpreter testing whether a composition of substitutions R produces a solution of a word equation E. Several variants of such interpreters, when specialized using a basic unfold/fold strategy, are able to decide solvability for a number of sets of the word equations with the overlapping variables.

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