[TYPES/announce] Foundations and Trends in Programming Languages: New Issue

[Tanya Capawana]

I am pleased to announce the publication of another issue of Foundations and Trends in Programming Languages:

Program Synthesis
By: Sumit Gulwani (Microsoft Research, USA), Oleksandr Polozov (University of Washington, USA) and Rishabh Singh (Microsoft Research, USA)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/2500000010

Description:
Program synthesis is the task of automatically finding a program in the underlying programming language that satisfies the user intent expressed in the form of some specification. Since the inception of artificial intelligence in the 1950s, this problem has been considered the holy grail of Computer Science. Despite inherent challenges in the problem such as ambiguity of user intent and a typically enormous search space of programs, the field of program synthesis has developed many different techniques that enable program synthesis in different real-life application domains. It is now used successfully in software engineering, biological discovery, compute-raided education, end-user programming, and data cleaning. In the last decade, several applications of synthesis in the field of programming by examples have been deployed in mass-market industrial products.

This monograph is a general overview of the state-of-the-art approaches to program synthesis, its applications, and subfields. It discusses the general principles common to all modern synthesis approaches such as syntactic bias, oracle-guided inductive search, and optimization techniques. We then present a literature review covering the four most common state-of-the-art techniques in program synthesis: enumerative search, constraint solving, stochastic search, and deduction-based programming by examples. It concludes with a brief list of future horizons for the field.

Contents:
1: Introduction
2: Applications
3: General Principles
4: Enumerative Search
5: Constraint Solving
6: Stochastic Search
7: Programming by Examples
8: Future Work.
Acknowledgements. References.

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