Languages.

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Languages. A Language is set of finite length
strings on the symbol set
i.e. a subset of

• (a b c a c d f g g g)
• At this point, we dont care how the language is
• generated or represented. So initially the
  comments
• apply to all kinds of languages
• regular

• -regular
• push-down automata languages
• Petri net languages
• A symbol can be made up of a vector of
• variable values, e.g. 1a3de0 or 010010.
• These are examples of a single symbol.
• Languages can be manipulated as follows

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Examples of Languages

• Alphabet ? a, b, c. Language includes all the
  strings, in which all occurrences of a appear
  before all occurrences of b
• ?, a, b, c, ab, ac, acb, cab, aacaabbbccb,
• Strings not in the language
• ba, aacabbaccc,
• Binary variables x, y ? 0,1. Alphabet ? 00,
  01, 10, 11. Language includes all the strings
  that can appear as input/output combinations of
  the given circuit (reset to 0)
• (00), (10), (00)(00)(00), (00)(10)(11),
• Strings not in the language
• (01), (11), (00)(01),

x
y
DFF
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• Union

• Intersection -

• Complement -

• Catenation -

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• Lowering and Raising
• Given a Language

over the alphabet
projection is defined as

• Given a Language L over the alphabet X lifting
• to the alphabet

is defined as -

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• Given a Language L over the alphabet

the restriction to X is defined as -
where

• Given a Language L over X and an alphabet Y
  disjoint
• from X, the expansion of L is defined as the
  language

over
such that -
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Regular Expressions. Regular Expressions over
alphabet
is a regular expression
is a regular expression
are regular expression If r and
s are regular expressions then rs, r s, and
are regular expressions. The language associated
with a regular expression is called a regular
language. Theorem The complement of a regular
language is a regular language
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• Classes of Languages
• A language is prefix closed if

• A language over

is I-progressive if

• A language over

is I-Moore if
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• Classes of Languages
• A language

over
is prefix closed if
A language
over
is IO-progressive if
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• Composition of Languages
• Given disjoint alphabets I,U,O and languages L1
  over

and L2 over
, their synchronous composition is

• .
• Given disjoint alphabets I,U,O and languages L1
  over

and L2 over
, their parallel composition is
.
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While synchronous product often is thought to be
a simple even uninteresting type of
coordination, it can be shown that, through the
use of non-determinism, this conceptually
simple coordination serves to model the most
general asynchronous coordination, i.e. where
processes progress at arbitrary rates relative
to one another. In fact the interleaving
model, the most common model for asynchrony in
the software community, can be viewed as a
special case of this synchronous product
Kurshan, 1994. Uses non-determinism and self
loops with null transitions at each state to
model parallel with synchronous.
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Finite Automata A finite automaton (FA) is
where S is a set of states,
is an input alphabet,
is a transition relation, r is the initial
state, and
is the set of accepting states.
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An input sequence
leads from r to s if there exists a sequence of
states,
for all i
0, ... ,n-1. w is in the language of F (
)
such that
if and only if w leads from r to
where
i.e.
denotes the set of states that can be reached
from r under the input sequence w.
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Theorem A languages is regular if and only if it
is the language of a finite automaton Theorem
The set of all languages for deterministic FA is
the same as for non-deterministic FA. (we will
show how this can be done using the so-called
subset construction.)
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• Operations on FA.
• projection (

) convert F over

• into F over X by replacing each edge (xv s s)
  by the edge (x s s)
• lifting (

) convert F over X into F over
where
by replacing each edge (x s s) by
stands for any
.
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• restriction (

) convert F over
to F over V, by changing every edge (v s s)
where
into ( )

• expansion (

) Change F over X into F over
by adding for each state, a self-loop for all v,
i.e. add an edge
where
stands for any
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Operations on FA. Product Given FAs
both over
, the product is
where
Complementation If F is deterministic, then
. If F is non-deterministic, the only known way
for complementation is to determinize it first.
This is done by the sub-set construction.
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Composition Synchronous Composition. Given two
automata
and
over alphabets
and
their synchronous composition is

• i.e. the product of the two automata when they
  are
• made to have the same alphabet.
• Parallel Composition. Given two automata

and
on alphabets
and
their synchronous composition is

• i.e. the product of the two automata when they
  are made
• to have the same alphabet.

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Subset Construction Given NFA
we create a DFA F with the same language as F
where
and

Theorem F and F have the same language. Proof
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Finite State Machines as Automata A FSM is
where I is the set of input symbols, O the set of
output symbols, r the initial state, and
T(s,i,s,o) is the transition relation. A
transition (s,i,s,o) from state s to s with
output o can happen on input i can if and only
if
If
then M is complete, otherwise partial.
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It is deterministic if for all (s,i) there is at
most one (s,o) such that
It is pseudo-non-deterministic if for all
(s,i,o) there is at most one s such that
A FSM is of Moore type if
i.e. i can determine the next state but not the
output.
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Converting an FSM to an automaton An FSM M can be
converted into an automaton F by the following
where
Note that Q S, i.e. all states are
accepting The resulting automaton is typically
not complete, since there are io combinations
for which a next state is not defined. We can
complete it by augmenting
to include a transition to a new non-accepting
state DCN.
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FSMs as Automata The language of an FSM is
defined to be the language of the associated
automaton A pseudo non-deterministic FSM is one
whose automaton is deterministic. The
language of an FSM is prefix closed.
The language of an FSM is I-progressive Conversi
on
is done by grouping i/o on edges to (io) and
making all states accepting. Conversion
can be done only if the language is prefix closed
and I-progressive. In this case, delete all
non-accepting states (prefix), and change edges
from (io) to i/o.