Merging states in finite automata is a main method of reducing the size of the representation of regular languages. The process has been extensively studied for deterministic fi...
Eilenberg's variety theorem gives a bijective correspondence between varieties of languages and varieties of finite monoids. The second author gave a similar relation between...
Abstract. We introduce the notion of regular cost functions: a quantitative extension to the standard theory of regular languages. We provide equivalent characterisations of this n...
The paper presents ConSpec, an automata based policy specification language. The language trades off clean semantics to language expressiveness; a formal semantics for the languag...
We show that the family of tree languages recognized by weak alternating automata is closed by three set theoretic operations that correspond to sum, multiplication by ordinals <...