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  2. Automata theory - Wikipedia

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    Automata theory is closely related to formal language theory. In this context, automata are used as finite representations of formal languages that may be infinite. Automata are often classified by the class of formal languages they can recognize, as in the Chomsky hierarchy, which describes a nesting relationship between major classes of automata.

  3. Krohn–Rhodes theory - Wikipedia

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    Let T be a semigroup. A semigroup S that is a homomorphic image of a subsemigroup of T is said to be a divisor of T.. The Krohn–Rhodes theorem for finite semigroups states that every finite semigroup S is a divisor of a finite alternating wreath product of finite simple groups, each a divisor of S, and finite aperiodic semigroups (which contain no nontrivial subgroups).

  4. Deterministic finite automaton - Wikipedia

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    According to the above definition, deterministic finite automata are always complete: they define from each state a transition for each input symbol. While this is the most common definition, some authors use the term deterministic finite automaton for a slightly different notion: an automaton that defines at most one transition for each state ...

  5. Theoretical computer science - Wikipedia

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    Automata theory is the study of abstract machines and automata, as well as the computational problems that can be solved using them. It is a theory in theoretical computer science, under discrete mathematics (a section of mathematics and also of computer science). Automata comes from the Greek word αὐτόματα meaning "self-acting".

  6. Finite-state machine - Wikipedia

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    Finite-state machines are a class of automata studied in automata theory and the theory of computation. In computer science, finite-state machines are widely used in modeling of application behavior ( control theory ), design of hardware digital systems , software engineering , compilers , network protocols , and computational linguistics .

  7. Unrestricted grammar - Wikipedia

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    In automata theory, the class of unrestricted grammars (also called semi-Thue, type-0 or phrase structure grammars) is the most general class of grammars in the Chomsky hierarchy. No restrictions are made on the productions of an unrestricted grammar, other than each of their left-hand sides being non-empty.

  8. State complexity - Wikipedia

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    State complexity is an area of theoretical computer science dealing with the size of abstract automata, such as different kinds of finite automata.The classical result in the area is that simulating an -state nondeterministic finite automaton by a deterministic finite automaton requires exactly states in the worst case.

  9. Deterministic pushdown automaton - Wikipedia

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    In automata theory, a deterministic pushdown automaton (DPDA or DPA) is a variation of the pushdown automaton. The class of deterministic pushdown automata accepts the deterministic context-free languages , a proper subset of context-free languages .