Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
| author: | Timo Peichl and Heribert Vollmer |
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| title: | Finite Automata with Generalized Acceptance Criteria |
| keywords: | finite automata, generalized acceptance criteria, leaf language, formal languages, complexity classes |
| abstract: | We examine the power of nondeterministic finite automata with acceptance of an input word defined by a leaf language, i.e., a condition on the sequence of leaves in the automaton's computation tree. We study leaf languages either taken from one of the classes of the Chomsky hierarchy, or taken from a time- or space-bounded complexity class. We contrast the obtained results with those known for leaf languages for Turing machines and Boolean circuits. |
| reference: | Timo Peichl and Heribert Vollmer (2001), Finite Automata with Generalized Acceptance Criteria, Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science 4, pp. 179-192 |
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