Simple-regular expressions and languages

  • Authors:
  • Yo-Sub Han;Gerhard Trippen;Derick Wood

  • Affiliations:
  • Intelligence and Interaction Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Cheongnyang, Seoul, Korea;Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada;Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR

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

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Abstract

We define simple-regular expressions and languages. Simple-regular languages provide a necessary condition for a language to be outfix-free. We design algorithms that compute simple-regular languages from finite-state automata. Furthermore, we investigate the complexity blowup from a given finite-state automaton to its simple-regular language automaton and show that there is an exponential blowup. In addition, we present a finite-state automata construction for simple-regular expressions based on state expansion.