Department of Computer Science at UH

University of Houston

Department of Computer Science

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Master of Science

Wei Guo

Will defend his thesis


Integrating a Preprocessor Based on Unification in the Laboratory for Rapid Rewriting

Abstract

In normalization, traversing the term to find a match with a rule costs most of the time. This thesis presents the design, implementation and integration of a unifcation-based preprocessor into the Laboratory for Rapid Rewriting, LRR, and the current status of LRR. LRR consists of two interpreters: Smaran, which stores the history of all rule applications, and TGR, which stands for Term Graph Rewriter. We have improved the preprocessor and the DS-list significantly and efficiently integrated their latest versions into both components of LRR. The performance of the latest version of LRR on some benchmarks - both favorable and unfavorable - is presented and compared with other interpreters including Maude and Rascal.

 

Date: Friday, April 19th, 2013
Time: 9:30 AM
Place: 501D-PGH

Faculty, students, and the general public are invited.
Advisor: Prof. Rakesh Verma