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Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems

14th International Workshop, DCFS 2012, Braga, Portugal, July 23-25, 2012, Proceedings

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 7386)

Part of the book sub series: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues (LNTCS)

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

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Table of contents (24 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Invited Papers

    1. Computing with Capsules

      • Jean-Baptiste Jeannin, Dexter Kozen
      Pages 1-19
    2. Minicomplexity

      • Christos A. Kapoutsis
      Pages 20-42
    3. Logical Analysis of Hybrid Systems

      • André Platzer
      Pages 43-49
    4. Groups and Automata: A Perfect Match

      • Pedro V. Silva
      Pages 50-63
  3. Regular Papers

    1. Uniform Distributed Pushdown Automata Systems

      • Fernando Arroyo, Juan Castellanos, Victor Mitrana
      Pages 64-75
    2. Removing Nondeterminism in Constant Height Pushdown Automata

      • Zuzana Bednárová, Viliam Geffert, Carlo Mereghetti, Beatrice Palano
      Pages 76-88
    3. On Inverse Operations and Their Descriptional Complexity

      • Maria Paola Bianchi, Markus Holzer, Sebastian Jakobi, Giovanni Pighizzini
      Pages 89-102
    4. Deciding Representability of Sets of Words of Equal Length

      • Francine Blanchet-Sadri, Sean Simmons
      Pages 103-116
    5. Syntactic Complexities of Some Classes of Star-Free Languages

      • Janusz Brzozowski, Baiyu Li
      Pages 117-129
    6. Production Complexity of Some Operations on Context-Free Languages

      • Jürgen Dassow, Ronny Harbich
      Pages 141-154
    7. State Complexity of Chop Operations on Unary and Finite Languages

      • Markus Holzer, Sebastian Jakobi
      Pages 169-182
    8. Descriptional Complexity of Biautomata

      • Galina Jirásková, Ondřej Klíma
      Pages 196-208
    9. Descriptional Complexity of Pushdown Store Languages

      • Andreas Malcher, Katja Meckel, Carlo Mereghetti, Beatrice Palano
      Pages 209-221

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Workshop of Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems 2012, held in Braga, Portugal, in July 2012.
The 20 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 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

    Martin Kutrib

  • Departamento de Ciência de Computadores, Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Ciências, Porto, Portugal

    Nelma Moreira, Rogério Reis

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