Logic Program Synthesis from Incomplete Information

By Pierre Flener

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461359252
• ISBN13: 9781461359258
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"