Fuzzy automata have long been accepted as a generalization of nondeterministic finite automata. A closer examination, however, shows that the fundamental property—nondeterminism—in nondeterministic finite automata has not been well embodied in the generalization. In this paper, we introduce nondeterministic fuzzy automata with or without -moves and fuzzy languages recognized by them. Furthermor...

Theories of fuzzy sets and type-2 fuzzy sets are powerful mathematical tools for modeling various types of uncertainty. In this paper we introduce the concept of type-2 fuzzy finite state automata and discuss the algebraic study of type-2 fuzzy finite state automata, i.e., to introduce the concept of homomorphisms between two type-2 fuzzy finite state automata, to associate a type-2 fuzzy trans...

General automata are considered with respect to normal-ization over semirings. Possibilistic automata are deened as normal pessimistic fuzzy automata. Possibilistic automata are analogous to stochas-tic automata where stochastic (+=) semirings are replaced by possi-bilistic (_=^) semirings; but where stochastic automata must be normal, fuzzy automata may be (resulting in possibilistic automata)...

In this paperwe adapt thewell-knownBrzozowskideterminizationmethod to fuzzy automata. Thismethod gives better results than all previously knownmethods for determinization of fuzzy automata developed by Bělohlávek [InformSciences 143 (2002)205–209],Li andPedrycz [FuzzySet Syst 156 (2005)68–92], Ignjatović et al. [Inform Sciences 178 (2008) 164–180], and Jančić et al. [Inform Sciences 181 (2011) ...

Bisimulations have beenwidely used inmany areas of computer science tomodel equivalence between various systems, and to reduce the number of states of these systems, whereas uniform fuzzy relations have recently been introduced as a means to model the fuzzy equivalence between elements of two possible different sets. Here we use the conjunction of these two concepts as a powerful tool in the st...

In this paper,we introduce a new verifiable multi-use multi-secretsharing scheme based on automata and one-way hash function. The scheme has theadversary fuzzy structure and satisfy the following properties:1) The dealer can change the participants and the adversary fuzzy structure without refreshing any participants' real-shadow. 2) The scheme is based on the inversion of weakly invertible fin...

Automata theory plays a key role in computational theory as many computational problems can be solved with its help. Formal grammar is a special type of automata designed for linguistic purposes. Formal grammar generates formal languages. Rough grammar and rough languages were introduced to incorporate the imprecision of real languages in formal languages. These languages have limitations on un...

Taking into account the notion of BL-general fuzzy automaton, in the present study we define the notation of BL-intuitionistic general L-fuzzy automaton and I-bisimulation for BL-intuitionistic general L-fuzzy automaton.Then for a given BL-intuitionistic general L-fuzzy automaton, we obtain the greatest I-bisimulation. According to this notion, we give the structure of quotient BL-intuiti...