Automata and Languages: Theory and Applications

ISBN-13: 9781852330743 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 920 str.

Alexander Meduna

Opis

Automata and Languages presents a step-by-step development of the theory of automata, languages and computation. Intended to be used as the basis of an introductory course to this theory at both junior and senior levels, the text is organized in such a way as to allow the design of various courses based on selected material. Areas featured in the book include: - *basic models of computation *formal languages and their properties *computability, decidability and complexity *a discussion of the modern trends in the theory of automata and formal languages *design of programming languages, including the development of a new programming language *compiler design, including the construction of a complete compiler Alexander Meduna uses clear definitions, easy-to-follow proofs and helpful examples to make formerly obscure concepts easy to understand. He also includes challenging exercises and programming projects to enhance the reader's comprehension, and, to put the theory firmly into a 'real world' context, he presents lots of realistic illustrations and applications in practical computer science.

Spis treści

I Introduction.- Mathematical Background.- 1 Languages.- 2 Automata.- II Regular Languages.- 3 Models for Regular Languages.- 4 Properties of Regular Languages.- III Context-Free Languages.- 5 Models for Context-Free Languages.- 6 Properties of Context-Free Languages.- 7 Special Types of Context-Free Languages and Their Models.- IV Beyond Context-Free Languages.- 8 Generalized Models.- V Translations.- 9 Finite and Pushdown Transducers.- 10 Turing Transducers.- Indices.- Index to Special Symbols.- Index to Decision Problems.- Index to Algorithms.

O autorze

Alexander Meduna, Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Brno University of Technology, received his PhD from Brno University in 1988. He has taught theoretical computer science at various European and American universities, including the University of Missouri, where he spent a decade teaching advanced topics of formal language theory.