---
title: "Automatic Program Synthesis from Example Problems"
authors:
  - "Laurent Siklóssy"
  - "D. A. Sykas"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/41"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/0041.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1975
pages: "268-272"
track: "Learning Debugging And Automatic Programming"
keywords:
---

# Automatic Program Synthesis from Example Problems

Laurent Siklóssy, D. A. Sykas

*Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 268-272.

## Abstract

Desired algorithms to be synthesized are described implicitly by example problems that the algorithms should solve. The example problems are first solved by the probl~olver LAWALY. The obtained solution represents a trace of the desired algorithm. From the trace, the algorithm is synthesized by the synthesizer SYN. SYN writes recursive programs with repeat statements, and generates its own subroutines. Examples of functions synthesized include repetitive robot tasks and tree traversal algorithms.