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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1995
Paul Sanders, Surbiton, GB;
Sterling Software, Inc., Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention transforms a declarative language specification of a problem into a procedural language specification of the problem. The present invention includes a partitioning module (16) for partitioning the problem into a set of sequenced, independent sub-problems in accordance with a set of refinement laws and an implement module (30) for generating procedural language implementations of each of the sub-problems using a set of domain specific heuristics applied by a guaranteed sharing module (22), a selection module (24), a share module (26) and a prune module (28) to a set of options generated by a form option module (20) for each of the sequenced, independent sub-problems in accordance with a given optimization level.