Leftist grammars can be characterized in terms of rules of the form a → ba and cd → d, without distinction between terminals and nonterminals. They were introduced by Motwani e...
We consider the problem of simulation preorder/equivalence between infinite-state processes and finite-state ones. We prove that simulation preorder (in both directions) and simu...
The class of visibly pushdown languages has been recently defined as a subclass of context-free languages with desirable closure properties and tractable decision problems. We stu...
Abstract. The relationship between automata and logics has been investigated since the 1960s. In particular, it was shown how to determine, given an automaton, whether or not it is...
Abstract. We prove that ground reducibility is EXPTIME-complete in the general case. EXPTIME-hardness is proved by encoding the emptiness problem for the intersection of recognizab...