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Combining Theories with Shared Set Operations

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Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2009)

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Motivated by applications in software verification, we explore automated reasoning about the non-disjoint combination of theories of infinitely many finite structures, where the theories share set variables and set operations. We prove a combination theorem and apply it to show the decidability of the satisfiability problem for a class of formulas obtained by applying propositional connectives to formulas belonging to: 1) Boolean Algebra with Presburger Arithmetic (with quantifiers over sets and integers), 2) weak monadic second-order logic over trees (with monadic second-order quantifiers), 3) two-variable logic with counting quantifiers (ranging over elements), 4) the Bernays-Schönfinkel-Ramsey class of first-order logic with equality (with ∃ * ∀ * quantifier prefix), and 5) the quantifier-free logic of multisets with cardinality constraints.

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    Thomas Wies, Ruzica Piskac & Viktor Kuncak

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Wies, T., Piskac, R., Kuncak, V. (2009). Combining Theories with Shared Set Operations. In: Ghilardi, S., Sebastiani, R. (eds) Frontiers of Combining Systems. FroCoS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5749. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04222-5_23

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