Monad Transformers for Backtracking Search

Jules Hedges
(Queen Mary University of London)

This paper extends Escardo and Oliva's selection monad to the selection monad transformer, a general monadic framework for expressing backtracking search algorithms in Haskell. The use of the closely related continuation monad transformer for similar purposes is also discussed, including an implementation of a DPLL-like SAT solver with no explicit recursion. Continuing a line of work exploring connections between selection functions and game theory, we use the selection monad transformer with the nondeterminism monad to obtain an intuitive notion of backward induction for a certain class of nondeterministic games.

In Paul Levy and Neel Krishnaswami: Proceedings 5th Workshop on Mathematically Structured Functional Programming (MSFP 2014), Grenoble, France, 12 April 2014, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 153, pp. 31–50.
Published: 5th June 2014.

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