Logic Program Synthesis from Incomplete Information
By: by Pierre Flener
Series: The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science -- 295; Kluwer international series in engineering and computer science -- 295.
Publisher: Springer US
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781461359258; 9781461522058
Subjects: Software engineering; Computer science; Artificial intelligence
Description: Program synthesis is a solution to the software crisis. If we had a program that develops correct programs from specifications, then program validation and maintenance would disappear from the software life-cycle, and one could focus on the more creative tasks of specification elaboration, validation, and maintenance, because replay of program development would be less costly. This monograph describes a novel approach to Inductive Logic Programming (ILP), which cross-fertilizes logic programming and machine learning. Aiming at the synthesis of recursive logic programs only, and this from incomplete information, we take a software engineering approach that is more appropriate than a pure artificial intelligence approach. This book is suitable as a secondary text for graduate level courses in software engineering and artificial intelligence, and as a reference for practitioners of program synthesis.
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