Language classes generated by tree controlled grammars with bounded nonterminal complexity

Sherzod Turaev, Jürgen Dassow, Mohd Hasan Selamat

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Abstract

A tree controlled grammar can be given as a pair (G,G′) where G is a context-free grammar and G′ is a regular grammar. Its language consists of all terminal words with a derivation in G such that all levels of the corresponding derivation tree - except the last level - belong to L(G′). We define its descriptional complexity Var(G,G′) as the sum of the numbers of nonterminals of G and G′. In [24] we have shown that tree controlled grammars (G,G′) with Var(G,G′)∈≥∈9 are sufficient to generate all recursively enumerable languages. In this paper, our main result improves the bound to seven. Moreover, we show that all linear and regular simple matrix languages can be generated by tree controlled grammars with a descriptional complexity bounded by three.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDescriptional Complexity of Formal Systems - 13th International Workshop, DCFS 2011, Proceedings
Pages289-300
Number of pages12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event13th International Workshop of Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems, DCFS 2011 - Giessen/Limburg, Germany
Duration: Jul 25 2011Jul 27 2011

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6808 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference13th International Workshop of Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems, DCFS 2011
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityGiessen/Limburg
Period7/25/117/27/11

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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