Transformations Between Different Types of Unranked Bottom-Up Tree Automata

Xiaoxue Piao
(Queen's University)
Kai Salomaa
(Queen's University)

We consider the representational state complexity of unranked tree automata. The bottom-up computation of an unranked tree automaton may be either deterministic or nondeterministic, and further variants arise depending on whether the horizontal string languages defining the transitions are represented by a DFA or an NFA. Also, we consider for unranked tree automata the alternative syntactic definition of determinism introduced by Cristau et al. (FCT'05, Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 3623, pp. 68-79).

We establish upper and lower bounds for the state complexity of conversions between different types of unranked tree automata.

In Ian McQuillan and Giovanni Pighizzini: Proceedings Twelfth Annual Workshop on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems (DCFS 2010), Saskatoon, Canada, 8-10th August 2010, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 31, pp. 159–168.
Published: 7th August 2010.

ArXived at: https://dx.doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.31.18 bibtex PDF

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