On the Average Size of Glushkov's Automata

  • Authors:
  • Cyril Nicaud

  • Affiliations:
  • LIGM, UMR CNRS 8049, Université Paris Est, Marne-la-Vallée, France 77454

  • Venue:
  • LATA '09 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Glushkov's algorithm builds an *** -free nondeterministic automaton from a given regular expression. In the worst case, its number of states is linear and its number of transitions is quadratic in the size of the expression. We show in this paper that in average, the number of transitions is linear.