Height-Deterministic Pushdown Automata

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Authors

NOWOTKA Dirk SRBA Jiří

Year of publication 2007
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference 32nd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS'07)
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Faculty of Informatics

Citation
Field Informatics
Keywords pushdown automata - visibly pushdown laguages - height determinism
Description We define the notion of height-deterministic pushdown automata, a model where for any given input string the stack heights during any (nondeterministic) computation on the input are a priori fixed. Different subclasses of height-deterministic pushdown automata, strictly containing the class of regular languages and still closed under boolean language operations, are considered. Several of such language classes have been described in the literature. Here, we suggest a natural and intuitive model that subsumes all the formalisms proposed so far by employing height-deterministic pushdown automata. Decidability and complexity questions are also considered.
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