The Rational Tree Machine
Wolf Kohn, Jean Butler, R. L. Graham · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1989
The Rational Tree Machine (RTM) is a type of graph reduction architecture, for the processing of logic programs, currently under development at Boeing's High Technology Center. The architecture is composed of three types of functional modules: tree memory, automata constructor, and automata simulation modules. A previous paper described the overall architecture and its functionality. This paper will concentrate on a detailed description of the automata constructor.