Regularity Problems for Visibly Pushdown Languages. Bárány, V., Löding, C., & Serre, O. In Proceedings of the 25th Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2006), volume 3884, of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 420-431, 2006. Springer-Verlag.
abstract   bibtex   
Visibly pushdown automata are special pushdown automata whose stack behavior is driven by the input symbols according to a partition of the alphabet. We show that it is decidable for a given visibly pushdown automaton whether it is equivalent to a visibly counter automaton, i.e. an automaton that uses its stack only as counter. In particular, this allows to decide whether a given visibly pushdown language is a regular restriction of the set of well-matched words, meaning that the language can be accepted by a finite automaton if only well-matched words are considered as input.
@inproceedings{BaranyLS06,
  keywords = {perso,conf},
  author    = {Vince Bárány and
               Christof Löding and
               Olivier Serre},
  title     = {Regularity Problems for Visibly Pushdown Languages},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 25th Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2006)},
  year      = {2006},
  pages     = {420-431},
  volume    = {3884},
  publisher = "Springer-Verlag",
  series    = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
abstract = {Visibly pushdown automata are special pushdown automata whose stack behavior is driven by the input symbols according to a partition of the alphabet. We show that it is decidable for a given visibly pushdown automaton whether it is equivalent to a visibly counter automaton, i.e. an automaton that uses its stack only as counter. In particular, this allows to decide whether a given visibly pushdown language is a regular restriction of the set of well-matched words, meaning that the language can be accepted by a finite automaton if only well-matched words are considered as input.},
fulltexturl = {http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00016661},
}

Downloads: 0