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On biautomata

Ondřej Klíma, Libor Polák (2012)

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We initiate the theory and applications of biautomata. A biautomaton can read a word alternately from the left and from the right. We assign to each regular language its canonical biautomaton. This structure plays, among all biautomata recognizing the language , the same role as the minimal deterministic automaton has among all deterministic automata recognizing the language . We expect that from the graph structure of this automaton one could decide the membership of a given language...

On the classes of languages accepted by limited context restarting automata

Friedrich Otto, Peter Černo, František Mráz (2014)

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In the literature various types of restarting automata have been studied that are based on contextual rewriting. A word is accepted by such an automaton if, starting from the initial configuration that corresponds to input , the word is reduced to the empty word by a finite number of applications of these contextual rewritings. This approach is reminiscent of the notion of McNaughton families of languages. Here we put the aforementioned types of restarting automata into the context...

k-counting automata

Joël Allred, Ulrich Ultes-Nitsche (2012)

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In this paper, we define -counting automata as recognizers for -languages, languages of infinite words. We prove that the class of -languages they recognize is a proper extension of the -regular languages. In addition we prove that languages recognized by -counting automata are closed under Boolean operations. It remains an open problem whether or not emptiness is decidable for -counting automata. However, we conjecture strongly that it is decidable and give formal reasons why we believe...

On biautomata

Ondřej Klíma, Libor Polák (2012)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications

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We initiate the theory and applications of biautomata. A biautomaton can read a word alternately from the left and from the right. We assign to each regular language its canonical biautomaton. This structure plays, among all biautomata recognizing the language , the same role as the minimal deterministic automaton has among all deterministic automata recognizing the language . We expect that from the graph structure of this automaton one could decide the membership of a given language...

-counting automata

Joël Allred, Ulrich Ultes-Nitsche (2012)

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In this paper, we define -counting automata as recognizers for -languages, languages of infinite words. We prove that the class of -languages they recognize is a proper extension of the -regular languages. In addition we prove that languages recognized by -counting automata are closed under Boolean operations. It remains an open problem whether or not emptiness is decidable for -counting automata. However, we conjecture strongly...

On differentiation functions, structure functions, and related languages of context-free grammars

Jürgen Dassow, Victor Mitrana, Gheorghe Păun, Ralf Stiebe (2010)

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We introduce the notion of a differentiation function of a context-free grammar which gives the number of terminal words that can be derived in a certain number of steps. A grammar is called narrow (or -narrow) iff its differentiation function is bounded by a constant (by ). We present the basic properties of differentiation functions, especially we relate them to structure function of context-free languages and narrow grammars to slender languages. We discuss the decidability...

On the analysis of Petri nets and their synthesis from process languages

Ludwik Czaja (2003)

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Processes in Place/Transition (P/T) nets are defined inductively by a peculiar numbering of place occurrences. Along with an associative sequential composition called catenation and a neutral process, a monoid of processes is obtained. The power algebra of this monoid contains all process languages with appropriate operations on them. Hence the problems of analysis and synthesis, analogous to those in the formal languages and automata theory, arise. Here, the analysis problem is: for...

On Existentially First-Order Definable Languages and Their Relation to NP

Bernd Borchert, Dietrich Kuske, Frank Stephan (2010)

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Under the assumption that the Polynomial-Time Hierarchy does not collapse we show for a regular language : the unbalanced polynomial-time leaf language class determined by equals  iff is existentially but not quantifierfree definable in FO[<, min, max, +1, −1]. Furthermore, no such class lies properly between NP and co-1-NP or NP⊕co-NP. The proofs rely on a result of Pin and Weil characterizing the automata of existentially first-order definable languages.