Track assignment in an air traffic control system: a rational reconstruction of system design

The author summarizes the application of the KIDS system (knowledge-based) (D.R. Smith, 1990) to a large-scale problem drawn from the domain of air traffic control. Hughes Aircraft supplied a natural language specification of the track assignment portion of an air traffic control system. This specification was formalized as a domain theory, and programs were derived within this theory. This derived code is compared with hand-generated Ada code developed manually by Hughes personnel.<<ETX>>