I052 Topics in Language Theory

Faculty of Informatics
Spring 1999
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Branislav Rovan, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Branislav Rovan, Ph.D.
Prerequisites
I005 Formal Languages and Automata I && I006 Formal Languages and Automata II
Prerequisites I005 Formal Languages and Automata I, I006 Formal Languages and Automata II
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Syllabus
  • Abstract families of languages and automata: definitions of language classes using their closure properties, relationships and dependencies between operations on languages, language family properties implied by automata family properties, operations on automata and their consequences for corresponding languages
  • Generalisations of grammars: grammars with controlled derivations, biologically motivated classes of grammars, generative systems, parallel generating languages, complexity of grammars, complexity of languages
Literature
  • GINSBURG, Seymour. Algebraic and automata-theoretic properties of formal languages. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1975, xii, 313. ISBN 0444105867. info
  • Handbook of formal languages. Vol. 1 Word, language, grammar. Edited by Grzegorz Rozenberg - Arto Salomaa. Berlin: Springer, 1997, xvii, 873. ISBN 3-540-60420-0. info
  • Handbook of formal languages. background and application. Edited by Grzegorz Rozenberg - Arto Salomaa. Berlin: Springer, 1997, xxii, 528. ISBN 3540614869. info
  • Salomaa, A.: Formal Languages. Academic Press, New York, 1973
  • Dassow,J., Paun,G.: Regulated Rewriting in Formal Language Theory. Springer, Berlin, 1980
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 1997, Spring 2001.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 1999, recent)
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