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Readings in Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering
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Readings in Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering

by Charles Rich, Richard C. Waters
June 2014
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
33h 31m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Programming by Examples

Michael A. Bauer,     Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ont., Canada

Recommended by S. Amarel; Received June 1978; revised version received December 1978

ABSTRACT

In this paper, examples of how an algorithm behaves on particular input are considered as possible means of describing the algorithm. In particular, a simple language for examples (a Computational Description Language) is presented and an algorithm for the synthesis of a procedure from a set of such example computations is described. The algorithm makes use of knowledge about variables, inputs, instructions and procedures during the synthesis process to guide the formation of a procedure. Several examples of procedures ...

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