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Functional synthesis for linear arithmetic and sets

Kuncak, Viktor  orcid-logo
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Mayer, Mikaël
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Piskac, Ruzica  
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2013
International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer

Synthesis of program fragments from specifications can make programs easier to write and easier to reason about. To integrate synthesis into programming languages, synthesis algorithms should behave in a predictable way—they should succeed for a well-defined class of specifications. To guarantee correctness and applicability to software (and not just hardware), these algorithms should also support unbounded data types, such as numbers and data structures. To obtain appropriate synthesis algorithms, we propose to generalize decision procedures into predictable and complete synthesis procedures. Such procedures are guaranteed to find the code that satisfies the specification if such code exists. Moreover, we identify conditions under which synthesis will statically decide whether the solution is guaranteed to exist and whether it is unique. We demonstrate our approach by starting from a quantifier elimination decision procedure for Boolean algebra of set with Presburger arithmetic and transforming it into a synthesis procedure. Our procedure also works in the presence of parametric coefficients. We establish results on the size and the efficiency of the synthesized code. We show that such procedures are useful as a language extension with implicit value definitions, and we show how to extend a compiler to support such definitions. Our constructs provide the benefits of synthesis to programmers, without requiring them to learn new concepts, give up a deterministic execution model, or provide code skeletons.

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DOI
10.1007/s10009-011-0217-7
Author(s)
Kuncak, Viktor  orcid-logo
Mayer, Mikaël
Piskac, Ruzica  
Suter, Philippe  
Date Issued

2013

Publisher

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Published in
International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer
Volume

15

Issue

5

Start page

455

End page

474

Subjects

Software synthesis

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Complete synthesis procedures

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Decision procedures

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Linear integer arithmetic

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