ISBN: 020102988X 9780201029888

Category: Computers / Machine Theory

Page count: 418

Preliminaries. Finite automata and regular expressions. Properties of regular sets. Context-free grammars. Pushdown automata; Properties of context-free languages. Turing machines. Undecidability. The Cohmsky hierarchy. Heterministic context-free languages. Closure properties of families of languages. Computational complexity theory. Intractable problems. Highlights of other important language classes.