A Verification Technique Using Term Rewriting Systems and Abstract Interpretation

Verifying the safety property of a transition system given by a term rewriting system is an undecidable problem. In this paper, we give an abstraction for the problem which is automatically generated from a given TRS by using abstract interpretation. Then we show that there are some cases in which the problem can be decided. Also we show a new decidable subclass of term rewriting systems which effectively preserves recognizability.