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Rewriting techniques for program synthesis

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We present here a completion-like procedure for program synthesis from specifications. A specification is expressed as a set of equations and the program is a Noetherian set of rewrite rules that is efficient for computation. We show that the optimizations applicable for proving inductive theorems are useful for program synthesis. This improves on the use of general completion procedure for program synthesis, reported by Dershowitz, in that it generates fewer rules and terminates more often. However, there is a qualitative difference between this procedure and completion, as superposition is used not for eliminating critical overlaps but to find a complete set of cases for an inductive theorem.

This research was supported in part by NASA grant NAG-1-613 and NSF grant CCR-87-00988..

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    Uday S. Reddy

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Reddy, U.S. (1989). Rewriting techniques for program synthesis. In: Dershowitz, N. (eds) Rewriting Techniques and Applications. RTA 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 355. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-51081-8_121

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