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Program Development in Computational Logic pp 30–65Cite as

Synthesis of Programs in Computational Logic

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Since the early days of programming and automated reasoning, researchers have developed methods for systematically constructing programs from their specifications. Especially the last decade has seen a flurry of activities including the advent of specialized conferences, such as LOPSTR, covering the synthesis of programs in computational logic. In this paper we analyze and compare three state-of-the-art methods for synthesizing recursive programs in computational logic. The three approaches are constructive/deductive synthesis, schema-guided synthesis, and inductive synthesis. Our comparison is carried out in a systematic way where, for each approach, we describe the key ideas and synthesize a common running example. In doing so, we explore the synergies between the approaches, which we believe are necessary in order to achieve progress over the next decade in this field.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

    David Basin

  2. Department of Computing Science and Engineering, Université catholique de Louvain, Pl. Ste Barbe 2, B-1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    Yves Deville

  3. Computing Science Division, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Box 337, S-751 05, Uppsala, Sweden

    Pierre Flener

  4. Computer Science Division, Department of Information Science, Uppsala University, Box 513, S-751 20, Uppsala, Sweden

    Andreas Hamfelt

  5. Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800, Lyngby, Denmark

    Jørgen Fischer Nilsson

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Basin, D., Deville, Y., Flener, P., Hamfelt, A., Fischer Nilsson, J. (2004). Synthesis of Programs in Computational Logic. In: Bruynooghe, M., Lau, KK. (eds) Program Development in Computational Logic. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3049. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25951-0_2

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