I n t r o d u c t i o n In [9] a comparison was made of the generative capacity of a number of grammar formalisms. Several were found to share a number of characteristics (described below) and the class of such formalisms was called linear context-free rewriting systems. This paper shows how the class of string languages generated by linear context-free rewriting systems relates to a number of ...

We consider way k tape alternating pushdown automata k apa and way k tape alternating nite automata k afa We say that an alternating automaton accepts a language L with f n bounded maximal respectively minimal leaf size if arbitrary re spectively at least one accepting tree for any w L has no more than f jwj leaves The main results of the article are the following For way k tape alternating cou...

Minimalist grammars provide a formalization of Minimalist syntax which allows us to study how the components of said theory affect its expressivity. A central concern of Minimalist syntax is the locality of the displacement operation Move. In Minimalist grammars, however, Move is unbounded. This paper is a study of the repercussions of limiting movement with respect to the number of slices a mo...

We investigate the typechecking problem for XML queries: statically verifying that every answer to a query conforms to a given output schema, for inputs satisfying a given input schema. As typechecking quickly turns undecidable for query languages capable of testing equality of data values, we return to the limited framework where we abstract XML documents as labeled ordered trees. We focus on ...

A composition procedure for linear and nondeleting extended top-down tree transducers is presented. It is demonstrated that the new procedure is more widely applicable than the existing methods. In general, the result of the composition is an extended top-down tree transducer that is no longer linear or nondeleting, but in a number of cases these properties can easily be recovered by a post-pro...

Unfortunately, the class of transformations computed by linear extended top-down tree transducers with regular look-ahead is not closed under composition. It is shown that the class of transformations computed by certain linear bimorphisms coincides with the previously mentioned class. Moreover, it is demonstrated that every linear epsilon-free extended top-down tree transducer with regular loo...

Alternating Decision Tree (ADTree) is a successful classification model based on boosting and has a wide range of applications. The existing ADTree induction algorithms apply a “top-down” strategy to evaluate the best split at each boosting iteration, which is very time-consuming and thus is unsuitable for modeling on large data sets. This paper proposes a fast ADTree induction algorithm (BOAI)...

In this paper we develop an automata-theoretic framework for reasoning about infinite-state sequential systems. Our framework is based on the observation that states of such systems, which carry a finite but unbounded amount of information, can be viewed as nodes in an infinite tree, and transitions between states can be simulated by finite-state automata. Checking that a system satisfies a tem...