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A Deductive Approach to Program Synthesis

Editor: Susan L. Graham Authors:

Zohar Manna,

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ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS), Volume 2, Issue 1

Pages 90 - 121

https://doi.org/10.1145/357084.357090

Published: 01 January 1980 Publication History

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Program synthesis is the systematic derivation of a program from a given specification. A deductive approach to program synthesis is presented for the construction of recursive programs. This approach regards program synthesis as a theorem-proving task and relies on a theorem-proving method that combines the features of transformation rules, unification, and mathematical induction within a single framework.

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1. Computing methodologies
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