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Intersections of bags and sets of extended substructures - a class of problems

E.A. Boiten

In B. M"oller, editor, Proceedings of the IFIP TC2 Working Conference on Constructing Programs from Specifications, pages 182-196, Amsterdam, May 1991. North-Holland.

Abstract

Formal specifications that exhibit similarities will often have similar solutions. Thus, it is useful to construct generalized specifications that describe classes of problems, since (partial) solutions to the generalized problem can be used for obtaining solutions for the specific problems.

In this paper we study a class of generalized pattern matching problems, in which the essential operation is the intersection of a particular set and a bag of extended substructures of a structured object. We present a formalization of bags of extended substructures and define the ISBES (Intersection of Sets and Bags of Extended Substructures) class of problems. Some example ISBES specifications are shown, and we present some first ideas about applicable program transformation strategies for ISBES problems.



Bibtex Record

@conference{161,
author = {E.A. Boiten},
title = {Intersections of Bags and Sets of Extended Substructures             -- a Class of Problems},
month = {May},
year = {1991},
pages = {182-196},
keywords = {determinacy analysis, Craig interpolants},
note = {},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/1991/161},
    ISBN = {0-444-89184-6},
    address = {Amsterdam},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the IFIP TC2 Working Conference on             Constructing Programs from Specifications},
    editor = {B. M"oller},
    publisher = {North-Holland},
    refereed = {yes},
}

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