On notions of regularity for data languages

  • Authors:
  • Henrik Björklund;Thomas Schwentick

  • Affiliations:
  • Technische Universität Dortmund, Computer Science Chair 1, D-44227 Dortmund, Germany;Technische Universität Dortmund, Computer Science Chair 1, D-44227 Dortmund, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

With motivation from considerations in XML database theory and model checking, data strings have been introduced as an extension of finite alphabet strings which carry, at each position, a symbol and a data value from an infinite domain. Previous work has shown that it is difficult to come up with an expressive yet decidable automaton model for data languages. Recently, such a model, data automata, was introduced. This paper introduces a simpler but equivalent model and investigates its expressive power, algorithmic and closure properties, and some extensions.