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Incremental construction of unification algorithms in equational theories

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Jouannaud, J.P., Kirchner, C., Kirchner, H. (1983). Incremental construction of unification algorithms in equational theories. In: Diaz, J. (eds) Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 1983. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 154. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0036921

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