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Equivalence between AND/OR graphs and context-free grammars

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Recent research in artificial intelligence has led to AND/OR graphs as a model of problem decomposition (Nilsson [3]; Simon and Lee [4]). However, AND/OR graphs of a restricted type are equivalent to context-free grammars. This can be set-up formally (the beginnings of a formalism of AND/OR graphs is contained in [4]), but the formalism is so obvious that a brief discussion and example suffice.

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