Abstraction
Abstraction[1]is a mechanism that maps a concrete instance to a single generic collection of instances. This mapping may lose information in the process, but helps compress unnecessary information.
References
- ↑ Cousot, Patrick; Cousot, Radhia (1977). Abstract interpretation: a unified lattice model for static analysis of programs by construction or approximation of fixpoints (PDF). 4th POPL. local page: ACM Press. p. 238-252.
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