Grammars working on layered strings

Bottoni Paolo and Mauri Giancarlo and Mussio Piero and Păun Gheorghe: Grammars working on layered strings. In: Acta cybernetica, (13) 4. pp. 339-358. (1998)

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Abstract

We consider first an operation with strings and languages suggested by superposed windows on the computer screen (as well as by cryptographic systems of Richelieu type): we assume that the strings contain usual symbols as well as a transparent symbol. Superposing two strings (justified to left), we produce a new string consisting of the symbols observable from above. This operation is investigated as an abstract operation on strings, then it is used in building a variant of grammar systems with the component grammars working on the layers of an array of strings. Each grammar can rewrite only symbols in its layer which are observable from above. The language generated in this way consists of strings of the observable symbols, produced at the end of a derivation. The power of several variants of these generative mechanisms is investigated for the case of two layered strings. When a matrix-like control on the work of the component grammars is considered, then a characterization of recursively enumerable languages is obtained.

Item Type: Article
Journal or Publication Title: Acta cybernetica
Date: 1998
Volume: 13
Number: 4
ISSN: 0324-721X
Page Range: pp. 339-358
Language: English
Place of Publication: Szeged
Related URLs: http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/38506/
Uncontrolled Keywords: Számítástechnika, Kibernetika
Additional Information: Bibliogr.: p. 357-358. ; összefoglalás angol nyelven
Subjects: 01. Natural sciences
01. Natural sciences > 01.02. Computer and information sciences
Date Deposited: 2016. Oct. 15. 12:26
Last Modified: 2022. Jun. 13. 15:32
URI: http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/id/eprint/12595

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