While formats are more efficient than standard lookup tables for retrieving target values, guidelines still need to be established for building the best possible format from a control data set. More specifically, the guidelines need to link the format as a function where label=f(range) to the format's underlying table as a two-dimensional relation where entities and attributes are identified by...

We extend the notion of Heyting algebra to a notion of truth values algebra and prove that a theory is consistent if and only if it has a B-valued model for some non trivial truth values algebra B. A theory that has a B-valued model for all truth values algebras B is said to be super-consistent. We prove that super-consistency is a model-theoretic sufficient condition for strong normalization.

We consider the representable equational theory of binary relations, in a language expressing composition, converse, and lattice operations. By working directly with a presentation of relation expressions as graphs we are able to define a notion of reduction which is confluent and strongly normalizing and induces a notion of computable normal form for terms. This notion of reduction thus leads ...

“ This paper defines reduction on derivations (cut-elimination) in the Strict Intersection Type Assignment System of [1] and shows a strong normalisation result for this reduction. Using this result, new proofs are given for the approximation theorem and the characterisation of normalisability of terms, using intersection types. ”