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Better Automata through Process Algebra (2002.07562v1)

Published 18 Feb 2020 in cs.FL

Abstract: This paper shows how the use of Structural Operational Semantics (SOS) in the style popularized by the process-algebra community can lead to a more succinct and useful construction for building finite automata from regular expressions. Such constructions have been known for decades, and form the basis for the proofs of one direction of Kleene's Theorem. The purpose of the new construction is, on the one hand, to show students how small automata can be constructed, without the need for empty transitions, and on the other hand to show how the construction method admits closure proofs of regular languages with respect to other operators as well. These results, while not theoretically surprising, point to an additional influence of process-algebraic research: in addition to providing fundamental insights into the nature of concurrent computation, it also sheds new light on old, well-known constructions in automata theory.

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