Generalizations of 1-deterministic regular languages

Yo Sub Han; Derick Wood

doi:10.1016/j.ic.2008.03.013

Generalizations of 1-deterministic regular languages

Yo Sub Han, Derick Wood

College of Computing

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Abstract

We examine two generalizations of 1-deterministic regular languages that are used for the content models of DTDs in XML. They are k-lookahead determinism and k-block-determinism. The k-lookahead determinism uses the first k symbols w₁ w₂ ⋯ w_k of the current input string as lookahead to process the first symbol w₁. On the other hand, the k-block-determinism takes kw₁ w₂ ⋯ w_k as lookahead and process the whole k symbols. We show that there is a hierarchy in k-lookahead determinism and there is a proper hierarchy in k-block-determinism. Moreover, we prove that k-block-deterministic regular languages are a proper subfamily of deterministic k-lookahead regular languages.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1117-1125
Number of pages	9
Journal	Information and Computation
Volume	206
Issue number	9-10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ic.2008.03.013
Publication status	Published - 2008 Sep

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* Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: emmous@kist.re.kr (Y.-S. Han), dwood@cs.ust.hk (D. Wood). 1 Han was supported by the KIST TSI Grant.

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Theoretical Computer Science
Information Systems
Computer Science Applications
Computational Theory and Mathematics

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