Download or read book Counter free Automata written by Robert McNaughton and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1971 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A particular class of finite-state automata, christened by the authors "counter-free," is shown here to behave like a good actor: it can drape itself so thoroughly in the notational guise and embed itself so deeply in the conceptual character of several quite different approaches to automata theory that on the surface it is hard to believe that all these roles are being assumed by the same class. This is one of the reasons it has been chosen for study here. The authors write that they "became impressed with the richness of its mathematical complexity" and that "a sure sign of gold is when profound mathematical theory interacts with problems that arise independently. And indeed it is noteworthy that the class of automata we shall discuss was defined more or less explicitly by several people working from very different directions and using very different concepts. The remarkable happening was that these definitions could not be recognized as equivalent until algebraic tools of analysis were brought to the field in the works of Schutzenberger and in the works of Krohn and Rhodes." The theme of the monograph is the utility and equivalence of these different definitions of counter-free automata. Its organization follows the plan of taking up, one by one, each of a number of different conceptualizations: the historically important "nerve net" approach; the algebraic approach, in which automata are treated as semigroups; the "classical" theory based on state transition diagrams; the "linguistic" approach based on the concept of regular expressions; and the "behavioral" descriptions using symbolic logic. In each of these conceptual areas, the class of automata under study is found in a new guise. Each time it appears as yet another special case. The authors' burden is to show that all these definitions are in fact equivalent. Care has been taken so that this research monograph can be used as a self-sufficient text. Notations have been defined carefully and always in the context of the discussion. Most of the chapters end with a substantial number of exercises. It is self-contained in that all concepts are defined, and all theorems used are, with one exception, either fully proved or safely left as exercises for the student.
Download or read book Logic and Automata written by Jörg Flum and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathematical logic and automata theory are two scientific disciplines with a fundamentally close relationship. The authors of Logic and Automata take the occasion of the sixtieth birthday of Wolfgang Thomas to present a tour d’horizon of automata theory and logic. The twenty papers in this volume cover many different facets of logic and automata theory, emphasizing the connections to other disciplines such as games, algorithms, and semigroup theory, as well as discussing current challenges in the field.
Download or read book Modern Applications Of Automata Theory written by Priti Shankar and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book An Examination of Counter Free Automata written by Sonal Pratik Patel and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis is an extensive examination of a graduate level monograph, Counter-Free Automata by McNaughton and Papert, to develop a deep understanding of the subject. This book is about many subclasses of type 3 languages and it proves all of these subclasses are equivalent. We have explored chapters 1 to 8 and 10. The real goal of this thesis is to solve as many problems at the end of each chapter in the book as possible. The thesis rehashes the discussion in the text of the nine chapters mentioned above. It is to be noted the text has no solution in the back of the book nor do any solutions appears to be available online. Since half or more of the problems have been solved in this undertaking, in effect a substantial beginning of a solution manual has been produced.
Download or read book Automata Languages and Programming written by Kim G. Larsen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998-07-06 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, ICALP'98, held in Aalborg, Denmark, in July 1998. The 70 revised full papers presented together with eight invited contributions were carefully selected from a total of 182 submissions. The book is divided in topical sections on complexitiy, verification, data structures, concurrency, computational geometry, automata and temporal logic, algorithms, infinite state systems, semantics, approximation, thorem proving, formal languages, pi-calculus, automata and BSP, rewriting, networking and routing, zero-knowledge, quantum computing, etc..
Download or read book Products of Automata written by Ferenc Gecseg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both theoretical and practical considerations motivate the repre sentation of objects as certain compositions of simpler ones. In the theory of automata this observation has led to the concepts of pro ducts and complete systems of automata. In the general form of the products of automata all the component automata are fed back to one another. With this very broad notion of products, the realization of automata with large numbers of states by means of compositions of basic components is a highly involved process; this increases the possibility of errors. In order to decrease the complexity of feedbacks, a hierarchy of products called lXi-pro ducts was introduced some 10 years ago, where i runs over the set of all non-negative integers. In an IXcproduct the index set of the component automata is linearly ordered. The input of each automaton in the product may depend on the states of all automata preceding it, i. e. , all component automata steer all those automata which follow them in the product. Furthermore, at most the next i-I automata (including itself) may be fed back to the input of a given component automaton. Thus for iXcproducts the lengths of feedbacks are at most i. The aim of this monograph is to give a systematic account of iXi-Products. It consists of five chapters, a reference section, and an index. The first chapter contains the necessary concepts and results from universal algebra, automata, and sequential machines.
Download or read book Implementation and Application of Automata written by Bruce Watson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-08-02 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata, CIAA 2001, held in Pretoria, South Africa in July 2001.The 23 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and revision. The topics addressed from theoretical as well as application-oriented viewpoints range from foundational and methodological issues to novel applications in object-oriented modeling, finite transducers in natural language processing, and non-deterministic finite-state models in communication protocols.nbsp;
Download or read book Language and Automata Theory and Applications written by Carlos Martín-Vide and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis written by Doron A. Peled and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-10-11 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Automated Technology for Veri?cation and Analysis (ATVA) international symposium series was initiated in 2003, responding to a growing interest in formal veri?cation spurred by the booming IT industry, particularly hardware design and manufacturing in East Asia. Its purpose is to promote research on automated veri?cation and analysis in the region by providing a forum for int- action between the regional and the international research/industrial commu- ties of the ?eld. ATVA 2005, the third of the ATVA series, was held in Taipei, Taiwan, October 4–7, 2005. The main theme of the symposium encompasses - sign, complexities, tools, and applications of automated methods for veri?cation and analysis. The symposium was co-located and had a two-day overlap with FORTE 2005, which was held October 2–5, 2005. We received a total of 95 submissions from 17 countries. Each submission was assigned to three Program Committee members, who were helped by their subreviewers, for rigorous and fair evaluation. The ?nal deliberation by the P- gram Committee was conducted over email for a duration of about 10 days after nearly all review reports had been collected. In the end, 33 papers were - lectedforinclusionintheprogram.ATVA2005hadthreekeynotespeechesgiven respectively by Amir Pnueli (joint with FORTE 2005), Zohar Manna, and Wo- gang Thomas. The main symposium was preceded by a tutorial day, consisting of three two-hour lectures given also by the keynote speakers.
Download or read book Language and Automata Theory and Applications written by Adrian-Horia Dediu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications, LATA 2013, held in Bilbao, Spain in April 2013. The 45 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 97 initial submissions. The volume features contributions from both classical theory fields and application areas (bioinformatics, systems biology, language technology, artificial intelligence, etc.). Among the topics covered are algebraic language theory; algorithms for semi-structured data mining; algorithms on automata and words; automata and logic; automata for system analysis and program verification; automata, concurrency and Petri nets; automatic structures; cellular automata; combinatorics on words; computability; computational complexity; computational linguistics; data and image compression; decidability questions on words and languages; descriptional complexity; DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing; document engineering; foundations of finite state technology; foundations of XML; fuzzy and rough languages; grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, multidimensional, unification, categorial, etc.); grammars and automata architectures; grammatical inference and algorithmic learning; graphs and graph transformation; language varieties and semigroups; language-based cryptography; language-theoretic foundations of artificial intelligence and artificial life; parallel and regulated rewriting; parsing; pattern recognition; patterns and codes; power series; quantum, chemical and optical computing; semantics; string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and bioinformatics; string processing algorithms; symbolic dynamics; symbolic neural networks; term rewriting; transducers; trees, tree languages and tree automata; weighted automata.
Download or read book Computer Aided Verification written by Warren A. Hunt, Jr. and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2003, held in Boulder, CO, USA in July 2003. The 32 revised full papers and 9 tool papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 102 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on bounded model checking; symbolic model checking; games, trees, and counters; tools; abstraction; dense time; infinite state systems; applications; theorem proving; automata-based verification; invariants; and explicit model checking.
Download or read book STACS 99 written by Christoph Meinel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-05-21 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, STACS 99, held in Trier, Germany in March 1999. The 51 revised full papers presented were selected from a total of 146 submissions. Also included are three invited papers. The volume is divided in topical sections on complexity, parallel algorithms, computational geometry, algorithms and data structures, automata and formal languages, verification, algorithmic learning, and logic in computer science.
Download or read book Time for Verification written by Zohar Manna and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is dedicated to the memory of the 1996 Turing Award winner Amir Pnueli, who passed away in November 2009. The Festschrift contains 15 scientific articles written by leading scientists who were close to Amir Pnueli either as former students, colleagues or friends. The topics covered span the entire breadth of the scientific work of Amir Pnueli, with a focus on the development and the application of formal methods. Also included is the first chapter of the unpublished Volume III of Zohar Manna and Amir Pnueli’s work on the verification of reactive systems using temporal logic techniques.
Download or read book Advances in Logic Artificial Intelligence and Robotics written by Jair Minoro Abe and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Logic (both Classical and Non-Classical) is being increasingly related with other fields in almost every scientific discipline and human activity. In this volume we have emphasized its role in the following fields of science: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Informatics in general, Technology, and correlated themes. The papers are written by some of the most prominent scientists of today.
Download or read book Automata Theory and Formal Languages written by Alberto Pettorossi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge of automata theory and formal languages is crucial for understanding human-computer interaction, as well as for understanding the various processes that take place when manipulating knowledge if that knowledge is, indeed, expressed as sentences written in a suitably formalized language. In particular, it is at the basis of the theory of parsing, which plays an important role in language translation, compiler construction, and knowledge manipulation in general. Presenting basic notions and fundamental results, this concise textbook is structured on the basis of a correspondence that exists between classes of automata and classes of languages. That correspondence is established by the fact that the recognition and the manipulation of sentences in a given class of languages can be done by an automaton in the corresponding class of automata. Four central chapters center on: finite automata and regular languages; pushdown automata and context-free languages; linear bounded automata and context-sensitive languages; and Turing machines and type 0 languages. The book also examines decidable and undecidable problems with emphasis on the case for context-free languages. Topics and features: Provides theorems, examples, and exercises to clarify automata-languages correspondences Presents some fundamental techniques for parsing both regular and context-free languages Classifies subclasses of decidable problems, avoiding focus on the theory of complexity Examines finite-automata minimalization and characterization of their behavior using regular expressions Illustrates how to derive grammars of context-free languages in Chomsky and Greibach normal forms Offers supplementary material on counter machines, stack automata, and abstract language families This highly useful, varied text/reference is suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses on automata theory and formal languages, and assumes no prior exposure to these topics nor any training in mathematics or logic. Alberto Pettorossi is professor of theoretical computer science at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.
Download or read book Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 2000 written by Mogens Nielsen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-06-29 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, MFCS 2000, held in Bratislava/Slovakia in August/September 2000. The 57 revised full papers presented together with eight invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 147 submissions. The book gives an excellent overview on current research in theoretical informatics. All relevant foundational issues, from mathematical logics as well as from discrete mathematics are covered. Anybody interested in theoretical computer science or the theory of computing will benefit from this book.
Download or read book Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures written by Patricia Bouyer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures, FOSSACS 2022, which was held during April 4-6, 2022, in Munich, Germany, as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2022. The 23 regular papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. They deal with research on theories and methods to support the analysis, integration, synthesis, transformation, and verification of programs and software systems.
