Nondeterminism and succinctly representable regular languages

  • Authors:
  • Lynette van Zijl

  • Affiliations:
  • Stellenbosch University, South Africa

  • Venue:
  • SAICSIT '02 Proceedings of the 2002 annual research conference of the South African institute of computer scientists and information technologists on Enablement through technology
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Only a relatively small number of families of regular languages can be represented succinctly by nondeterministic finite state machines. We conduct both experimental and theoretical analyses on selective nondeterministic finite automata, or *-NFAs, and show that this class of nondeterministic automata can be used for the succinct representation of a far larger number of regular languages.