Modern Aspects of Classical Automata Theory

Modern Aspects of Classical Automata Theory
Author: Sebastian Jakobi
Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2015-03-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3832539441

Regular languages have a wide area of applications. This makes it an important task to convert between different forms of regular language representations, and to compress the size of such representations. This book studies modern aspects of compressions and conversions of regular language representations. The first main part presents methods for lossy compression of classical finite automata. Lossy compression allows to reduce the size of a language representation below the limits of classical compression methods, by the cost of introducing tolerable errors to the language. The complexity of many problems related to compression with respect to different error profiles is classified. The other main part is devoted to the study of biautomata, which were recently introduced as a new descriptional model for regular languages. Although biautomata are in many ways similar to finite automata, this book carves out some notable differences. While classical methods for finite automata can successfully be applied to biautomata, one observes a drastic increase of the computational complexity when considering lossy compression for biautomata.

Computational Complexity

Computational Complexity
Author: Sanjeev Arora
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2009-04-20
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0521424267

New and classical results in computational complexity, including interactive proofs, PCP, derandomization, and quantum computation. Ideal for graduate students.

Modern Applications Of Automata Theory

Modern Applications Of Automata Theory
Author: Priti Shankar
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 673
Release: 2012-05-24
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9814468320

Automata theory has come into prominence in recent years with a plethora of applications in fields ranging from verification to XML processing and file compression. In fact, the 2007 Turing Award was awarded to Clarke, Emerson and Sifakis for their pioneering work on model-checking techniques. To the best of our knowledge, there is no single book that covers the vast range of applications of automata theory targeted at a mature student audience. This book is intended to fill that gap and can be used as an intermediate-level textbook. It begins with a detailed treatment of foundational material not normally covered in a beginner's course in automata theory, and then rapidly moves on to applications. The book is largely devoted to verification and model checking, and contains material that is at the cutting edge of verification technology. It will be an invaluable reference for software practitioners working in this area.

Language and Automata Theory and Applications

Language and Automata Theory and Applications
Author: Carlos Martín-Vide
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2019-03-12
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030134350

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications, LATA 2019, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in March 2019. The 31 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 98 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: Automata; Complexity; Grammars; Languages; Graphs, trees and rewriting; and Words and codes.

Theory Is Forever

Theory Is Forever
Author: Juhani Karhumäki
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2004-06-29
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540223932

This commemorative book celebrates the 70th birthday of Arto Kustaa Salomaa, one of the most influential researchers in theoretical computer science. The 24 invited papers by leading researchers in the area address a broad variety of topics in theoretical computer science and impressively reflect the breadth and the depth of Arto Salomaa's scientific work.

Implementation and Application of Automata

Implementation and Application of Automata
Author: Stavros Konstantinidis
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2013-07-11
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642392741

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed papers of the 18th International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata, CIAA 2013, held in Halifax, NS, Canada, in July 2013. The 25 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers and 7 short papers were carefully selected from 43 submissions. The papers cover various topics such as complexity of automata; compressed automata; counter automata; dictionary matching; edit distance; homing sequences; implementation; minimization of automata; model checking; parsing of regular expressions; partial word automata; picture languages; pushdown automata; queue automata; reachability analysis for software verification; restarting automata; transducers; tree automata; weighted automata; XML streams.

Computability, Complexity, Logic

Computability, Complexity, Logic
Author: E. Börger
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 618
Release: 1989-07-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 008088704X

The theme of this book is formed by a pair of concepts: the concept of formal language as carrier of the precise expression of meaning, facts and problems, and the concept of algorithm or calculus, i.e. a formally operating procedure for the solution of precisely described questions and problems.The book is a unified introduction to the modern theory of these concepts, to the way in which they developed first in mathematical logic and computability theory and later in automata theory, and to the theory of formal languages and complexity theory. Apart from considering the fundamental themes and classical aspects of these areas, the subject matter has been selected to give priority throughout to the new aspects of traditional questions, results and methods which have developed from the needs or knowledge of computer science and particularly of complexity theory.It is both a textbook for introductory courses in the above-mentioned disciplines as well as a monograph in which further results of new research are systematically presented and where an attempt is made to make explicit the connections and analogies between a variety of concepts and constructions.

Applied Automata Theory

Applied Automata Theory
Author: Julius T. Tou
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2013-10-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1483225194

Applied Automata Theory provides an engineering style of presentation of some of the applied work in the field of automata theory. Topics covered range from algebraic foundations and recursive functions to regular expressions, threshold logic, and switching circuits. Coding problems and stochastic processes are also discussed, along with content addressable memories, probabilistic reliability, and Turing machines. Much emphasis is placed on engineering applications. Comprised of nine chapters, this book first deals with the algebraic foundations of automata theory, focusing on concepts such as semigroups, groups and homomorphisms, and partially ordered sets and lattices, as well as congruences and other relations. The reader is then introduced to regular expressions; stochastic automata and discrete systems theory; and switching networks as models of discrete stochastic processes. Subsequent chapters explore applications of automata theory in coding; content addressable and distributed logic memories; recursive functions and switching-circuit theory; and synthesis of a cellular computer. The book concludes with an assessment of the fundamentals of threshold logic. This monograph is intended for graduates or advanced undergraduates taking a course in information science or a course on discrete systems in modern engineering curriculum.

Introduction to the Theory of Computation

Introduction to the Theory of Computation
Author: Michael Sipser
Publisher: Thomson/Course Technology
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2006
Genre: Computational complexity
ISBN: 9780619217648

"Intended as an upper-level undergraduate or introductory graduate text in computer science theory," this book lucidly covers the key concepts and theorems of the theory of computation. The presentation is remarkably clear; for example, the "proof idea," which offers the reader an intuitive feel for how the proof was constructed, accompanies many of the theorems and a proof. Introduction to the Theory of Computation covers the usual topics for this type of text plus it features a solid section on complexity theory--including an entire chapter on space complexity. The final chapter introduces more advanced topics, such as the discussion of complexity classes associated with probabilistic algorithms.

Mathematical Aspects Of Natural And Formal Languages

Mathematical Aspects Of Natural And Formal Languages
Author: Gheorghe Paun
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 502
Release: 1994-10-25
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9814518158

This book contains original reviews by well-known workers in the field of mathematical linguistics and formal language theory, written in honour of Professor Solomon Marcus on the occasion of his 70th birthday.Some of the papers deal with contextual grammars, a class of generative devices introduced by Marcus, motivated by descriptive linguistics. Others are devoted to grammar systems, a very modern branch of formal language theory. Automata theory and the algebraic approach to computer science are other well-represented areas. While the contributions are mathematically oriented, practical issues such as cryptography, grammatical inference and natural language processing are also discussed.