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Languages, machines, and classical computation
3rd ed, 2021. A circumscription of the classical theory of computation building up from the Chomsky hierarchy. With the usual topics in formal language and automata theory
Tree transducers, L systems, and two-way machines
A relationship between parallel rewriting systems and two-way machines is investigated. Restrictions on the “copying power” of these devices endow them with rich structuring and give insight into the issues of determinism, parallelism, and copying. Among the parallel rewriting systems considered are the top-down tree transducer; the generalized syntax-directed translation scheme and the ETOL system, and among the two-way machines are the tree-walking automaton, the two-way finite-state transducer, and (generalizations of) the one-way checking stack automaton. The. relationship of these devices to macro grammars is also considered. An effort is made .to provide a systematic survey of a number of existing results
A Bibliography on Fuzzy Automata, Grammars and Lanuages
This bibliography contains references to papers on fuzzy formal languages, the generation of fuzzy languages by means of fuzzy grammars, the recognition of fuzzy languages by fuzzy automata and machines, as well as some applications of fuzzy set theory to syntactic pattern recognition, linguistics and natural language processing
The Computational Complexity of Symbolic Dynamics at the Onset of Chaos
In a variety of studies of dynamical systems, the edge of order and chaos has
been singled out as a region of complexity. It was suggested by Wolfram, on the
basis of qualitative behaviour of cellular automata, that the computational
basis for modelling this region is the Universal Turing Machine. In this paper,
following a suggestion of Crutchfield, we try to show that the Turing machine
model may often be too powerful as a computational model to describe the
boundary of order and chaos. In particular we study the region of the first
accumulation of period doubling in unimodal and bimodal maps of the interval,
from the point of view of language theory. We show that in relation to the
``extended'' Chomsky hierarchy, the relevant computational model in the
unimodal case is the nested stack automaton or the related indexed languages,
while the bimodal case is modeled by the linear bounded automaton or the
related context-sensitive languages.Comment: 1 reference corrected, 1 reference added, minor changes in body of
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A Note on the Complexity of Restricted Attribute-Value Grammars
The recognition problem for attribute-value grammars (AVGs) was shown to be
undecidable by Johnson in 1988. Therefore, the general form of AVGs is of no
practical use. In this paper we study a very restricted form of AVG, for which
the recognition problem is decidable (though still NP-complete), the R-AVG. We
show that the R-AVG formalism captures all of the context free languages and
more, and introduce a variation on the so-called `off-line parsability
constraint', the `honest parsability constraint', which lets different types of
R-AVG coincide precisely with well-known time complexity classes.Comment: 18 pages, also available by (1) anonymous ftp at
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from http://www.fwi.uva.nl/~mtrautwe
Generalized Results on Monoids as Memory
We show that some results from the theory of group automata and monoid
automata still hold for more general classes of monoids and models. Extending
previous work for finite automata over commutative groups, we demonstrate a
context-free language that can not be recognized by any rational monoid
automaton over a finitely generated permutable monoid. We show that the class
of languages recognized by rational monoid automata over finitely generated
completely simple or completely 0-simple permutable monoids is a semi-linear
full trio. Furthermore, we investigate valence pushdown automata, and prove
that they are only as powerful as (finite) valence automata. We observe that
certain results proven for monoid automata can be easily lifted to the case of
context-free valence grammars.Comment: In Proceedings AFL 2017, arXiv:1708.0622
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