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Languages and machines : an introduction to the theory of computer science / Thomas A. Sudkamp.

By: Sudkamp, Thomas A.
Publisher: Boston : Pearson Addison-Wesley, c2006Edition: 3rd ed.Description: xvii, 654 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0321315340 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Formal languages | Machine theory | Computational complexityDDC classification: 511.3
Contents:
Mathematical preliminaries - Languages - Context-free grammars - Normal forms for context-free grammars - Finite automata - Properties of regular languages - Pushdown automata and context-free languages - Turing machines - Turing computable functions - The Chomsky hierarchy - Decision problems and the church-turing thesis - Undecidability - Mu-recursive functions - Time complexity - P, NP and Cook's theorem - NP-complete problems - Additional complexity classes - Parsing : an introduction - LL(k) grammars - LR(k) grammars.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 641-647) and index.

Mathematical preliminaries - Languages - Context-free grammars - Normal forms for context-free grammars - Finite automata - Properties of regular languages - Pushdown automata and context-free languages - Turing machines - Turing computable functions - The Chomsky hierarchy - Decision problems and the church-turing thesis - Undecidability - Mu-recursive functions - Time complexity - P, NP and Cook's theorem - NP-complete problems - Additional complexity classes - Parsing : an introduction - LL(k) grammars - LR(k) grammars.