Handbook of Formal Languages

Arto Salomaa

ISBN 10: 3642638635 / ISBN 13: 9783642638633

Editore: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg Nov 2012, 2012

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Neuware -The need for a comprehensive survey-type exposition on formal languages and related mainstream areas of computer science has been evident for some years. If! the early 1970s, when the book Formal Languages by the second quite feasible to write a comprehensive mentioned editor appeared, it was still book with that title and include also topics of current research interest. This would not be possible anymore. A standard-sized book on formal languages would either have to stay on a fairly low level or else be specialized and restricted to some narrow sector of the field. The setup becomes drastically different in a collection of contributions, where the best authorities in the world join forces, each of them concentrat ing on their own areas of specialization. The present three-volume Handbook constitutes such a unique collection. In these three volumes we present the current state of the art in formal language theory. We were most satisfied with the enthusiastic response given to our request for contributions by specialists representing various subfields. The need for a Handbook of Formal Languages was in many answers expressed in different ways: as an easily accessible his torical reference, a general source of information, an overall course-aid, and a compact collection of material for self-study. We are convinced that the final result will satisfy such various needs. The theory of formal languages constitutes the stem or backbone of the field of science now generally known as theoretical computer science.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 900 pp. Englisch.

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• Titolo: Handbook of Formal Languages
• Editore: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg Nov 2012
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3642638635
• ISBN 13: 9783642638633
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 235 L x 155 A x 48 P (millimetri) 235 millimetri di larghezza per 155 millimetri di altezza per 48 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 1334 grammi

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Riassunto

This uniquely authoritative and comprehensive handbook is the first to cover the vast field of formal languages, as well as its traditional and most recent applications to such diverse areas as linguistics, developmental biology, computer graphics, cryptology, molecular genetics, and programming languages. No other work comes even close to the scope of this one. The editors are extremely well-known theoretical computer scientists, and each individual topic is presented by the leading authorities in the particular field. The maturity of the field makes it possible to include a historical perspective in many presentations. The work is divided into three volumes, which may be purchased as a set.

Contenuti

of Volume 1.- 1. Formal Languages: an Introduction and a Synopsis.- 2. Regular Languages.- 3. Context-Free Languages and Pushdown Automata.- 4. Aspects of Classical Language Theory.- 5. L Systems.- 6. Combinatorics of Words.- 7. Morphisms.- 8. Codes.- 9. Semirings and Formal Power Series.- 10. Syntactic Semigroups.- 11. Regularity and Finiteness Conditions.- 12. Families Generated by Grammars and L Systems.