Capacity Bounded Grammars and Petri Nets

A capacity bounded grammar is a grammar whose derivations are restricted by assigning a bound to the number of every nonterminal symbol in the sentential forms. In the paper the generative power and closure properties of capacity bounded grammars and their Petri net controlled counterparts are investigated

Place-Labeled Petri Net Controlled Grammars

A place-labeled Petri net (pPN) controlled grammar is a context-free grammar equipped with a Petri net and a function which maps places of the net to the productions of the grammar. The language consists of all terminal strings that can be obtained by simultaneously applying of the rules of multisets which are the images of the sets of the input places of transitions in a successful occurrence sequence of the Petri net. In this paper, we study the generative power and structural properties of pPN controlled grammars. We show that pPN controlled grammars have the same generative power as matrix grammars. Moreover, we prove that for each pPN controlled grammar, we can construct an equivalent place-labeled ordinary net controlled grammar

Petri net controlled grammars

Different types of regulated grammars have been introduced in order to supplement shortcomings of context-free grammars in applications preserving their elegant mathematical properties. However, the rapid developments in present day industry, biology, and other areas challenge to deal with various tasks which need suitable tools for their modelling and investigation. We propose Petri net controlled grammars as models for representing and analyzing of metabolic pathways in living cells where Petri nets are responsible for the structure and communication of the pathways, and grammars represent biochemical processes. On the other hand, the control by Petri nets has also theoretical interest: it extends possibilities to introduce and investigate concurrent control mechanisms in formal language theory. The thesis introduces various variants of Petri net controlled grammars using different types of Petri nets and investigates their mathematical properties such as computational power and closure properties.Los diferentes tipos de gramáticas con reescritura regulada han sido introducidas para complementar las deficiencias de las gramáticas libres del contexto en las aplicaciones, preservando sus propiedades matemáticas. Por otro lado, la rápida evolución la biología, y otras áreas actuales supone un reto para tratar de las tareas varias que necesitan las herramientas adecuadas para la elaboración de modelos e investigación. Proponemos gramáticas controladas por redes de Petri como modelos para representar y analizar los procesos bioquímicos en las células vivas donde redes de Petri son responsables de la estructura, y gramáticas representan los procesos generativos. Además, el control de redes de Petri también tiene interés teórico: amplía las posibilidades de investigar los mecanismos de control concurrente en la teoría de lenguajes formales. La tesis presenta distintas variantes de gramáticas controladas por redes de Petri e investiga sus propiedades matemáticas

An approach to computing downward closures

The downward closure of a word language is the set of all (not necessarily contiguous) subwords of its members. It is well-known that the downward closure of any language is regular. While the downward closure appears to be a powerful abstraction, algorithms for computing a finite automaton for the downward closure of a given language have been established only for few language classes. This work presents a simple general method for computing downward closures. For language classes that are closed under rational transductions, it is shown that the computation of downward closures can be reduced to checking a certain unboundedness property. This result is used to prove that downward closures are computable for (i) every language class with effectively semilinear Parikh images that are closed under rational transductions, (ii) matrix languages, and (iii) indexed languages (equivalently, languages accepted by higher-order pushdown automata of order 2).Comment: Full version of contribution to ICALP 2015. Comments welcom

Petri net controlled grammars with a bounded number of additional places

A context-free grammar and its derivations can be described by a Petri net, called a context-free Petri net, whose places and transitions correspond to the nonterminals and the production rules of the grammar, respectively, and tokens are separate instances of the nonterminals in a sentential form. Therefore , the control of the derivations in a context-free grammar can be implemented by adding some features to the associated cf Petri net. The addition of new places and new arcs from/to these new places to/from transitions of the net leads grammars controlled by k-Petri nets, i.e., Petri nets with additional k places. In the paper we investigate the generative power and give closure properties of the families of languages generated by such Petri net controlled grammars, in particular, we show that these families form an infinite hierarchy with respect to the numbers of additional places

On Erasing Rules in Regulated Grammars

V této práci je diskutován vliv vymazávacích pravidel na generativní sílu řízených gramatik, což je velký otevřený problém teorie řízeného přepisování. Tato práce studuje možnost odstranění vymazávacích pravidel z těchto gramatik tak, že shromažďuje aktuální výsledky na toto téma a přináší novou podmínku, nazvanou k-limitované vymazávání, která zaručuje, že jsme bez vlivu na generovaný jazyk schopni odstranit všechna vymazávací pravidla z libovolné bezkontextové gramatiky řízené regulárním jazykem splňující tuto podmínku. Tento výsledek je částečným řešením výše zmíněného problému. Mimoto je prezentován nový algoritmus k odstranění vymazávacích pravidel z bezkontextových gramatik, který nepotřebuje předurčovat tzv. epsilon-neterminály (na rozdíl od standardního algoritmu používaného v učebnicích). V závěru je zhodnocen přínos těchto výsledků pro syntaktickou analýzu.This work discusses the effect of erasing rules to the generative power of regulated grammars, which is a big open problem in the theory of regulated rewriting. It studies the possibility of removal of erasing rules from regulated grammars by aggregation of current, up-to-date results concerning this elimination and by presentation of a new condition, called k-limited erasing, under which all erasing rules can be always removed from regularly controlled context-free grammars without affecting their generative power. This result partially solves the abovementioned problem. Moreover, a new algorithm for elimination of erasing rules from context-free grammars is presented. This algorithm does not require any predetermination of so called epsilon-nonterminals (in contrast to the standard algorithm used in textbooks). In the conclusion, a significance of these results concerning syntactical analysis is discussed.

State machine of place-labelled Petri net controlled grammars

A place-labelled Petri net controlled grammar is, in general, a context-free grammar equipped with a Petri net and a function which maps places of the net to productions of the grammar. The languages of place-labelled Petri net controlled grammar consist of all terminal strings that can be obtained by parallel application of the rules of multisets which are the images of the sets of input places in a successful occurrence sequence of the Petri net. In this paper, we investigate the structural subclass of place-labelled Petri net controlled grammar which focus on the state machine. We also establish the generative capacity of state machine of place-labelled Petri net controlled grammars