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Higher-Order Pattern Unification Modulo Similarity Relations

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Besik Dundua *
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Temur Kutsia
DOI:10.1007/978-3-032-04848-6_5delete
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The combination of higher-order theories and fuzzy logic can be useful in decision-making tasks that involve reasoning across abstract functions and predicates, where exact matches are often rare or unnecessary. Developing efficient reasoning and computational techniques for such a combined formalism presents a significant challenge. In this paper, we adopt a more straightforward approach aiming at integrating two well-established and computationally well-behaved components: higher-order patterns on one side and fuzzy equivalences expressed through similarity relations based on minimum T-norm on the other. We propose a unification algorithm for higher-order patterns modulo these similarity relations and prove its termination, soundness, and completeness. This unification problem, like its crisp counterpart, is unitary. The algorithm computes a most general unifier with the highest degree of approximation when the given terms are unifiable.
Keywords:
Unification
Higher-order patterns
Fuzzy similarity relations

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LOGIC-BASED PROGRAM SYNTHESIS AND TRANSFORMATION, LOPSTR 2025
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Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
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