Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

Approaches to Automatic Programming

MERL Report:  TR92-04
Where Published: Advances in Computers, Volume 37, M. C. Yovits, ed., Academic Press, 1993

This paper is an overview of current approaches to automatic programming organized around three fundamental questions that must be addressed in the design of any automatic programming system: What does the user see? How does the system work? What does the system know? As an example of a research effort in this area, we focus the Programmer's Apprentice project.

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