Complexity measures for regular expressions

  • Authors:
  • Andrzej Ehrenfeucht;Paul Zeiger

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computer and System Sciences
  • Year:
  • 1976

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Abstract

Several measures of the complexity of a regular expression are defined. (Star height and number of alphabetical symbols are two of them.) Upper and lower estimates for the complexities of expressions for certain sets of paths on graphs are derived.