• Title of article

    The STO-problem is NP-hard

  • Author/Authors

    Krzysztof R. Apt، نويسنده , , Peter van Emde Boas، نويسنده , , Angelo Welling، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 1994
  • Pages
    7
  • From page
    489
  • To page
    495
  • Abstract
    A finite set of term equations E is called subject to the occur-check (STO) if a sequence of actions of the Martelli-Montanari unification algorithm starts with E and ends with a failure due to occur-check. We prove here that the problem of deciding whether E is STO is NP-hard.
  • Journal title
    Journal of Symbolic Computation
  • Serial Year
    1994
  • Journal title
    Journal of Symbolic Computation
  • Record number

    805041