Finite categories and regular languages

Regular Languages and Finite Automata

Regular Languages and Finite Automata

In 1943, McCulloch and Pitts [4] published a pioneering work on a model for studying the behavior of the nervous systems. Following up on the ideas of McCulloch and Pitts, Kleene [3] wrote the first paper on finite automata and regular expressions. A finite automaton can be considered as the simplest machine model in that the machine has a finite memory; that is, the memory size is independent ...

Finite idempotent groupoids and regular languages

Learning Regular Languages Using Nondeterministic Finite Automata

A new general method for inference of regular languages using nondeterministic automata as output has recently been developed and proved to converge. The aim of this paper is to describe and analyze the behavior of two implementations of that method and to compare it with two well known algorithms for the same task. A complete set of experiments has been carried out and the results of the new a...

P Finite Automata and Regular Languages over Countably Infinite Alphabets

We examine the class of languages over countably infinite alphabets characterized by a class of restricted and simplified P automata variants, which we call P finite automata, and show that these classes possess several properties which make them perfect candidates for being the natural extension of the notion of finite automata and that of regular languages to infinite alphabets. To this aim, ...