Technical Introduction to the First Workshop on AI and Automated Program Understanding

Workshop Notes, Tenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1992

The workshop consists of four sessions:
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\item Introductions, Interests and Applications
\item Representation
\item Recognition and Control
\item Future Directions.
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This technical introduction provides background and issues discussion fro each of the sessions.

In the first session, automatic program understanding systems (APU) will be described in terms of their emphasis, input, output, knowledge, and recognition method. The technical introduction to his session elaborates on APU input, output, and applications.

The following unnumbered section, Theory and Architecture, gives the model of program understanding used to organize Sessions Two and Three.

The representation session considers program and knowledge representation. For each of these, we will discuss issues and present a survey of example approaches. Similarly, for Session Three, we will give issues and examples for simple plan instance recognition and for top-level control of more complex recognition and applications.

To support the concluding session, Future Directions, we will review some criteria and measures for evaluating the current state of automatic program understanding, then discuss considerations for planning future work.