Introduction to Formal Languages - Brossura

Revesz, Gyorgy E.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0486666972 ISBN 13: 9780486666976

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 1991

Riassunto

This highly technical introduction to formal languages in computer science covers all areas of mainstream formal language theory, including such topics as operations on languages, context-sensitive languages, automata, decidability, syntax analysis, derivation languages, and more. Geared toward advanced undergraduates and graduate students, the treatment examines mathematical topics related to mathematical logic, set theory, and linguistics. All subjects are integral to the theory of computation.
Numerous worked examples appear throughout the book, and end-of-chapter exercises enable readers to apply theory and methods to real-life problems. Elegant mathematical proofs are provided for almost all theorems.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Gyorgy Revesz is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Contenuti:

Preface Chapter 1. The Notion of Formal Language 1.1 Basic Concepts and Notations 1.2 The Chomsky Hierarchy of Languages Chapter 2. Operations on Languages 2.1 Definitions of Operations on Languages 2.2 Closure Properties of Language Classes Chapter 3. Context-Free Languages 3.1 The Chomsky Normal Form 3.2 Derivation Tree 3.3 Linear Grammars and Regular Languages 3.4 Griebach Normal Form 3.5 Regular Expressions Chapter 4. Context-Sensitive Languages 4.1 Length-Increasing Grammars 4.2 Kuroda Normal Form 4.3 One-Sided Context-Sensitive Grammars Chapter 5. Unrestricted Phrase-Structure Languages 5.1 A Normal Form for Type O Grammars 5.2 Derivation Graph Chapter 6. Automata and Their Languages 6.1 Finite Automata 6.2 Pushdown Automata 6.3 Two-Pushdown Automata 6.4 Turing Machines Chapter 7. Decidability 7.1 Recursive and Recursively Enumerable Languages 7.2 The Church-Turing Thesis 7.3 Undecidable Problems Chapter 8. Complexity of Computations 8.1 Deterministic and Nondeterministic Procedures 8.2 Measures of Complexity 8.3 Complexity of Context-Free Language Recognition 8.4 The Hardest Context-Free Language Chapter 9. Syntax Analysis 9.1 The Connection between Syntax and Semantics 9.2 Ambiguity 9.3 Earley's Algorithm 9.4 LL(k) and LR(k) Grammars Chapter 10. Derivation Languages 10.1 Operations on Derivations 10.2 Derivation Words 10.3 Algebraic Properties of the Fundamental Operations 10.4 Canonical Derivations and Graph Traversals 10.5 The Context-Sensitivity of Derivation Languages 10.6 Derivations in Context-Sensitive Grammars Appendix. Elements of Set Theory Bibliographic Notes; References; Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0486666972
• ISBN 13: 9780486666976
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 199