Evolving Recursive Definitions with Applications to Dynamic Programming

Abstract: Inspired by computability logic\cite{Jap03}, we refine recursive function definitions into two kinds: blindly-quantified (BQ) ones and parallel universally quantified (PUQ) ones. BQ definitions corresponds to the traditional ones where recursive definitions are $not$ evolving. PUQ definitions are {\it evolving} in the course of computation, leading to automatic memoization. In addition, based on this idea, we propose a new, high-level object-oriented language.