Formal Languages
by Keijo Ruohonen
Publisher: Tampere University of Technology 2009
Number of pages: 98
Description:
In these lecture notes the classical Chomskian formal language theory is fairly fully dealt with, omitting however much of automata constructs and computability issues. In addition, surveys of Lindenmayer system theory and the mathematical theory of codes are given.
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