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Model Checking Driven Heuristic Search for Correct Programs

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Model Checking and Artificial Intelligence (MoChArt 2008)

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Genetic programming and model checking were combined recently to generate correct-by-construction programs. Unlike other synthesis methods, this approach is based on a search in the state space of syntactically-restricted programs. This search can be seen as a probabilistic and heuristic search. In this paper we discuss the connection between program synthesis and heuristic search.

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  1. Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 52900, Israel

    Gal Katz & Doron Peled

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  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, L69 3BX, Liverpool, UK

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Katz, G., Peled, D. (2009). Model Checking Driven Heuristic Search for Correct Programs. In: Peled, D.A., Wooldridge, M.J. (eds) Model Checking and Artificial Intelligence. MoChArt 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5348. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00431-5_8

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