WHEN ARE TWO ALGORITHMS THE SAME?

被引:13
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作者
Blass, Andreas [1 ]
Dershowitz, Nachum [2 ]
Gurevich, Yuri [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Michigan, Dept Math, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[2] Tel Aviv Univ, Sch Comp Sci, IL-69978 Ramat Aviv, Israel
[3] Microsoft Res, Redmond, WA 98052 USA
基金
以色列科学基金会;
关键词
LOGIC;
D O I
10.2178/bsl/1243948484
中图分类号
O1 [数学];
学科分类号
0701 ; 070101 ;
摘要
People usually regard algorithms as more abstract than the programs that implement them. The natural way to formalize this idea is that algorithms are equivalence classes of programs with respect to a suitable equivalence relation. We argue that no such equivalence relation exists.
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页码:145 / 168
页数:24
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