Restarting automata and their relations to the Chomsky hierarchy

  • Authors:
  • Friedrich Otto

  • Affiliations:
  • Fachbereich Mathematik/Informatik, Universität Kassel, Kassel, Germany

  • Venue:
  • DLT'03 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Developments in language theory
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The restarting automaton, introduced by Jančar et al in 1995, is motivated by the so-called 'analysis by reduction, ' a technique from linguistics. By now there are many different models of restarting automata, and their investigation has proved very fruitful in that they offer an opportunity to study the influence of various kinds of resources on their expressive power. Here a survey on the various models and their properties is given, their relationships to the language classes of the Chomsky hierarchy are described, and some open problems are presented.