Abstract. We investigate the state complexity of union and intersection for finite languages. Note that the problem of obtaining the tight bounds for both operations was open. We ...
Abstract. Inapproximability results concerning minimization of nondeterministic finite automata relative to given deterministic finite automata were obtained only recently, modul...
Visibly Pushdown Automata (VPA) are a special case of pushdown machines where the stack operations are driven by the input. In this paper, we consider VPA with two stacks, namely 2...
d Abstract) F. Blanchet-Sadri1 , N.C. Brownstein2 , and Justin Palumbo3 1 Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, P.O. Box 26170, Greensboro, NC 27402–6170,...
Francine Blanchet-Sadri, N. C. Brownstein, Justin ...
Abstract. We study the dynamics of cellular automata, and more specifically their transitivity and expansivity, when the set of configurations is endowed with a shift-invariant (p...
The canonical coding partition of a set of words is the finest partition such that the words contained in at least two factorizations of a same sequence belong to a same class. In...
Tiling systems that recognize two-dimensional languages are intrinsically non-deterministic models. We introduce the notion of deterministic tiling system that generalizes determin...