The Mathematics of Inheritance Systems

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The revised version of doctoral dissertation of David S. Touretzky, which was defended at Carnegie-Mellon University in 1984.

Author(s): David S. Touretzky
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
Year: 1986

Language: English
Pages: 220
City: Los Altos, Salifornia

1. Inheritance Hierarchies 1-30
2. A Theory of IS-A Inheritance 31-78
3. Predicates Lattices and Formal Semantics 79-100
4. Parallel Marker Propagation Machines 101-138
5. A Theory of Inheritable Relations 139-166
6. Marker Propagation and Inheritable Relations 167-190
7. Further Extensions to Inheritance 191-206
8. Conclusions 207-216
9. References 217-220