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Construction of a Deterministic ω-Automaton Using Derivatives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 August 2002

Roman R. Redziejowski
Roman R. Redziejowski*
Affiliation:
Ericsson Hewlett-Packard Telecommunications AB, Västberga Allé 9, S-12625 Stockholm, Sweden; [email protected]
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Abstract

A deterministic automaton recognizing a givenω-regular languageis constructed from an ω-regular expressionwith the help of derivatives.The construction is related to Safra's algorithm, in about the same way as the classicalderivative method is related to the subset construction.

Keywords

Infinite wordomega-languageregular languageregular expressionrational languagerational expressionderivativedeterministic omega-automatonMuller automaton.
Type
Research Article
Information
RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , March 1999 , pp. 133 - 158
Copyright
© EDP Sciences, 1999

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