An automatic programming system to support an experimental science

  • Authors:
  • D. Barstow;R. Duffey;S. Smoliar;S. Vestal

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICSE '82 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Software engineering
  • Year:
  • 1982

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Abstract

Programs are often used in experimental sciences to test new models and theories against real-world data. One of the major bottlenecks in that process is the need to write the program which implements the new model. ø0 is an automatic programming system which supports petroleum scientists in testing quantitative log interpretation models against log data from oil wells. The user (a petroleum scientist) describes a model by interacting with ø0 in the natural terms of the domain. ø0 then automatically writes a program which implements the model. The entire process takes from ten to twenty minutes and achieves results which previously required two to three weeks of effort.