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Table-driven problem solvers
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Source ACM Southeast Regional Conference archive
Proceedings of the 18th annual Southeast regional conference table of contents
Tallahassee, Florida
SESSION: General topics in computer science I - GCS I table of contents
Pages: 32 - 36  
Year of Publication: 1980
ISBN:0-89791-014-1
Authors
David S. Burris  Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX
Kurt Schember  University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, TX
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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
Publisher
ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

This paper suggests an extension of decision tables and finite automata to more general table-driven problem solvers. The basic idea is that when a problem description is changed, only the contents table directing the flow of control and actions taken by a program need be modified and not the actual code. Program actions may be changed easily and documentation and program reliability improved.


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Bruce H. Barnes, A Programmer's View of Automata, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), v.4 n.4, p.221-239, Dec. 1972  [doi>10.1145/356608.356610]
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Udo W. Pooch, Translation of Decision Tables, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), v.6 n.2, p.125-151, June 1974  [doi>10.1145/356628.356630]

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Keywords:
Decision Tables, finite automata, table-driven problem solvers

Collaborative Colleagues:
David S. Burris: colleagues
Kurt Schember: colleagues

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