Trace Languages
Just as a formal language can be regarded as a subset of the set of all possible strings, so then a trace language is defined as subset of all possible traces.
A language is a trace language, or is said to be consistent with dependency D if
where
is the trace closure of a set of strings, and
is the set of strings in a set of traces.
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