Definitions for "BURS"
The Burs were a Dacian tribe living in Dacia in the first and second centuries of the Common Era, with their capital city at Buridava. They allied with other tribes in the region to support the efforts by Decebal, the Dacian king, to turn back the Romans. They are depicted on the Adamclisi Roman triumphant monument in Dobruja and on Trajan's Column as allies of the Dacians.
BURS (bottom-up rewrite system) theory tackles the problem of taking a complex expression tree or intermediate language term and finding a good translation to machine code for a particular architecture. Implementations of BURS often employ dynamic programming to solve this problem.