author = "Gutman A.E.",

title = "Prefix rewriting systems as object-oriented data models",

booktitle = "Ershov Informatics Conference 2011. Knowledge and Ontologies *ELSEWHERE* 2011. The Third Workshop (Novosibirsk, July 1, 2011): Proceedings",

address = "Novosibirsk",

publisher = "Price-Courier",

year = "2011",

pages = "5--14",

annote = "A deterministic longest-prefix rewriting system is a rewriting system such that there are no rewriting rules $X\rightarrow Y$, $X\rightarrow Z$ with $Y\ne Z$, and only longest prefixes of words are subject to rewriting. Given such a system, analogs are defined and examined of some concepts related to object-oriented data systems: inheritance of classes and objects, instances of classes, class and instance attributes, conceptual dependence and consistency, conceptual scheme, types and subtypes, etc. A special attention is paid to the effective verification of various properties of the rewriting systems under consideration. In particular, the algorithms are presented for answering the following questions: Are all words finitely rewritable? Do there exist recurrent words? Is the system conceptually consistent? Given two words $X$ and $Y$, does $X$ conceptually depend on $Y$? Does the type of $X$ coincide with that of $Y$? Is the type of $X$ a subtype of that of $Y$?",

keywords = "prefix rewriting, term rewriting, object-oriented data system, information system, consistency verification, ontology of a data model"