Object-oriented data as prefix rewriting systems

A deterministic longest-prefix rewriting system is a rewriting system such that there are no rewriting rules $X{\to}Y$, $X{\to}Z$ 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, 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 $Y$?