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The Program Inverter LRinv and Its Structure

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Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL 2005)

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Program inversion is a fundamental concept in programtransformation. We describe the principles behind an automatic program inverter, which we developed for a first-order functional language, and show several inverse programs automatically produced by our system. The examples belong to different application areas, including encoding and decoding, printing and parsing, and bidirectional data conversion. The core of the system uses a stack-based language, local inversion, and eliminates nondeterminism by applying methods from parsing theory.

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  1. Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, 169-8555, Japan

    Masahiko Kawabe

  2. Dept. of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, DIKU, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Robert Glück

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  1. IMDEA Institute for Software Development Technology, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, University of New Mexico Universidad Complutense de Madrid,  

    Manuel V. Hermenegildo

  2. School of Computer Science, T.U. Madrid (UPM), Spain

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Kawabe, M., Glück, R. (2005). The Program Inverter LRinv and Its Structure. In: Hermenegildo, M.V., Cabeza, D. (eds) Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages. PADL 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3350. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30557-6_17

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