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Rapport (Rapport De Recherche) Année : 2010

On the Count of Trees

Résumé

Regular tree grammars and regular path expressions constitute core constructs widely used in programming languages and type systems. Nevertheless, there has been little research so far on frameworks for reasoning about path expressions where node cardinality constraints occur along a path in a tree. We present a logic capable of expressing deep counting along paths which may include arbitrary recursive forward and backward navigation. The counting extensions can be seen as a generalization of graded modalities that count immediate successor nodes. While the combination of graded modalities, nominals, and inverse modalities yields undecidable logics over graphs, we show that these features can be combined in a decidable tree logic whose main features can be decided in exponential time. Our logic being closed under negation, it may be used to decide typical problems on XPath queries such as satisfiability, type checking with relation to regular types, containment, or equivalence.
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Dates et versions

inria-00473160 , version 1 (14-04-2010)
inria-00473160 , version 2 (24-08-2010)

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  • HAL Id : inria-00473160 , version 2
  • ARXIV : 1008.5073

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Everardo Barcenas, Pierre Genevès, Nabil Layaïda, Alan Schmitt. On the Count of Trees. [Research Report] RR-7251, INRIA. 2010. ⟨inria-00473160v2⟩
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