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NAME

       dfg2dfg - calculate approximations of problems

SYNOPSIS

       dfg2dfg [-horn] [-monadic] [-linear] [-shallow] [infile] [outfile]

DESCRIPTION

       dfg2dfg is a program that reads clauses from an input file in DFG
       syntax.  It then calculates an approximation of the clause set
       depending on the command line options.  Finally it writes the
       approximated clause set in DFG syntax to a file.

       If neither infile nor outfile are given, dfg2dfg reads from standard
       input and writes to standard output.  If one file name is given, it
       reads from that file and writes the output to standard output.  If more
       than one file name is given, dfg2dfg reads from the first file and
       writes to the second.

       The approximations are described in technical detail in the separate
       paper dfg2dfg.ps included in the SPASS distribution.

OPTIONS

       dfg2dfg has four different command line options that may be combined.

       "-horn"
           This option enables the transformation of non-horn clauses into
           horn clauses.  Each non-horn clause with n positive literals is
           transformed into n horn clauses, where the i-th clause contains the
           i-th positive literal and all negative literals of the non-horn
           clause.  See also section 3 of the paper.

       "-monadic[=n]"
           With this option atoms with non-monadic predicate symbols are
           transformed into monadic atoms.  If n is omitted or n=1 a term
           encoding is applied, i.e., all non-monadic predicates are moved to
           the term level.  With n=2 a projection is applied. All non-monadic
           atoms are replaced by their monadic argument projections.  See
           section 4.1 section 4.2 of the paper for more details.

       "-linear"
           This approximation transforms a clause with monadic literals and
           non-linear variable occurrences in succedent atoms, into a new
           clause with possibly more negative literals, that doesn’t contain
           any non-linear variables in the succedent.  See section 5 of the
           paper for details.

       "-shallow[=n]"
           This transformation tries to reduce the depth of the terms in
           positive literals.  The transformation is applied to horn clauses
           with monadic literals only.  If n is omitted or n=1 a strict
           transformation is applied, that is equivalence preserving, however.
           For n=2 some preconditions are removed.  This allows the
           transformation to be applied more often, but the transformation
           isn’t equivalence preserving any more.  For n=3 even more
           preconditions are removed.  Take a look at section 6.n of the paper
           for the details of the command line option -monadic=n.

SEE ALSO

       SPASS(1)

AUTHORS

       Enno Keen

       Contact : Thomas Hillenbrand <hillen@mpi-sb.mpg.de>,
                 Christoph Weidenbach <weidenb@mpi-sb.mpg.de>