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- From: macrakis@osf.org (Stavros Macrakis)
- Newsgroups: comp.compilers
- Subject: Re: Set Generators
- Keywords: theory
- Message-ID: <92-08-136@comp.compilers>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 17:28:19 GMT
- Article-I.D.: comp.92-08-136
- References: <92-08-125@comp.compilers>
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- Reply-To: macrakis@osf.org (Stavros Macrakis)
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- coatta@cs.ubc.ca (Terry Coatta) writes:
-
- In a system that I am working on, sets of objects are often
- specified via membership predicates. ... I am looking for are
- hints or help on a ``mechanical'' process for taking membership
- predicates and ``compiling'' them in to (imperative) procedures
- which will generate the set in question.
-
- There has been considerable work on this problem. Of course, it is
- completely intractable in general, however for many useful and interesting
- cases, there are good results.
-
- Researchers working in this area include Cordell Green, Dave Barstow,
- Martin Feather. Manfred Broy, John Darlington, and others work on closely
- related problems.
-
- Green's company, Reasoning Systems (Palo Alto, CA), sells a product called
- Refine which does precisely this (among other things).
-
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