phyllis@utcsrgv.UUCP (Phyllis Eve Bregman) (01/26/84)
UofT Department of Computer Science Seminar Schedule for
the week of January 30th, 1984
Friday, February 3rd, 11:00 A.M., SF3201: Dr. David Barstow,
Schlumberger-Doll Research, Ridgefield: A perspective on automatic
programming".
ABSTRACT: Most work in automatic programming has focused primarily
on the roles of deduction and programming knowledge. However, the
role played by knowledge of the task domain seems to be at least
as important, both for the usability of an automatic programming
system and for the feasibility of building one which works on
non-trivial problems. This perspective has evolved during the
course of a variety of studies over the last several years, including
detailed examination of existing software for a particular domain
(quantitative interpretation of oil well logs) and the implementation
of an experimental automatic programming system for that domain.
The importance of domain knowledge has two important implications:
a primary goal of automatic programming research should be to characterize
the programming process for specific domains; and a crucial issue
to be addressed in these characterizations is the interaction of
domain and programming knowledge during program synthesis.
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Phyllis Eve Bregman
CSRG, Univ. of Toronto
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