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Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems

13 International Workshop, DCFS 2011, Gießen/Limburg, Germany, July 25-27, 2011. Proceedings

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Conference series link(s): DCFS: International Conference on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems

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Table of contents (25 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Invited Papers

    1. Construction and SAT-Based Verification of Contextual Unfoldings

      • Stefan Schwoon, César Rodríguez
      Pages 34-42
    2. The Power of Diversity

      • Denis Thérien
      Pages 43-54
  3. Regular Papers

    1. Decidability and Shortest Strings in Formal Languages

      • Levent Alpoge, Thomas Ang, Luke Schaeffer, Jeffrey Shallit
      Pages 55-67
    2. On the Degree of Team Cooperation in CD Grammar Systems

      • Fernando Arroyo, Juan Castellanos, Victor Mitrana
      Pages 68-79
    3. The Size-Cost of Boolean Operations on Constant Height Deterministic Pushdown Automata

      • Zuzana Bednárová, Viliam Geffert, Carlo Mereghetti, Beatrice Palano
      Pages 80-92
    4. Syntactic Complexity of Prefix-, Suffix-, and Bifix-Free Regular Languages

      • Janusz Brzozowski, Baiyu Li, Yuli Ye
      Pages 93-106
    5. Geometrical Regular Languages and Linear Diophantine Equations

      • Jean-Marc Champarnaud, Jean-Philippe Dubernard, Franck Guingne, Hadrien Jeanne
      Pages 107-120
    6. On Contextual Grammars with Subregular Selection Languages

      • Jürgen Dassow, Florin Manea, Bianca Truthe
      Pages 135-146
    7. Remarks on Separating Words

      • Erik D. Demaine, Sarah Eisenstat, Jeffrey Shallit, David A. Wilson
      Pages 147-157
    8. k-Local Internal Contextual Grammars

      • Radu Gramatovici, Florin Manea
      Pages 172-183
    9. On Synchronized Multitape and Multihead Automata

      • Oscar H. Ibarra, Nicholas Q. Tran
      Pages 184-197
    10. State Complexity of Projected Languages

      • Galina Jirásková, Tomáš Masopust
      Pages 198-211
    11. Note on Reversal of Binary Regular Languages

      • Galina Jirásková, Juraj Šebej
      Pages 212-221
    12. Kleene Theorems for Product Systems

      • Kamal Lodaya, Madhavan Mukund, Ramchandra Phawade
      Pages 235-247

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Workshop of Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems 2011, held in Limburg, Germany, in July 2011. The 21 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. The topics covered are automata, grammars, languages and related systems, various measures and modes of operations (e.g., determinism and nondeterminism); trade-offs between computational models and/or operations; succinctness of description of (finite) objects; state explosion-like phenomena; circuit complexity of Boolean functions and related measures; resource-bounded or structure-bounded environments; frontiers between decidability and undecidability; universality and reversibility; structural complexity; formal systems for applications (e.g., software reliability, software and hardware testing, modeling of natural languages); nature-motivated (bio-inspired) architectures and unconventional models of computing; Kolmogorov complexity.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Informatik, Universität Giessen, Giessen, Germany

    Markus Holzer

  • Institut für Informatik, Universität Gießen, Gießen, Germany

    Martin Kutrib

  • Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

    Giovanni Pighizzini

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