The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science

Flener, Pierre

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.

Details

Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 1994-12-31

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780792395324

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-2205-8

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 242