Monotonicity of restarting automata

  • Authors:
  • Petr Jancar;František Mráz;Martin Plátek;Jörg Vogel

  • Affiliations:
  • Center of Applied Cybernetics, Department of Computer Science, TU Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic;Charles University, Department of Computer Science, Praha 1, Czech Republic;Charles University, Department of Computer Science, Praha 1, Czech Republic;Friedrich Schiller University, Computer Science Institute, Jena, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Restarting automata constitute a special class of regulated length-reducing rewriting systems. In this paper, several versions of these automata and a (strict) monotonicity property imposed on their computations are considered. This yields three natural possibilities for defining when an automaton is (strictly) monotonic. A taxonomy of the relevant language classes is provided, and the decidability questions for the studied properties are answered.