Languages.A Language is set of finite length strings on the symbol set i.e. a subset of *

(a b c a c d f g g g)At this point, we don’t care how the language is generated or represented. So initially the comments apply to all kinds of languagesregular• -regularpush-down automata languagesPetri net languages …A symbol can be made up of a vector of variable values, e.g. 1a3de0 or 010010. These are examples of a single symbol.Languages can be manipulated as follows:

Examples of Languages

• Alphabet = {a, b, c}. Language includes all the strings, in which all occurrences of a appear before all occurrences of b:, a, b, c, ab, ac, acb, cab, aacaabbbccb, …Strings not in the language:ba, aacabbaccc, …

• Binary variables x, y {0,1}. Alphabet = {00, 01, 10, 11}. Language includes all the strings that can appear as input/output combinations of the given circuit (reset to 0):(00), (10), (00)(00)(00), (00)(10)(11),…Strings not in the language:(01), (11), (00)(01), … DFF

x y

1 2 1 2{ | or }L L L L Intersection -

1 2 1 2{ | }L L L L Complement -

*{ | }L L Catenation -

1 2 1 2{ | }L L L L

• Union

Lowering and RaisingGiven a Language L

over the alphabet X Y

projection is defined as –

{{ }|{( )} }i i iX X YX

L L Given a Language L over the alphabet X lifting to the alphabet X Y

is defined as - {{( )} |{ } }i i

X XYL L

Given a Language L over the alphabet X Y

the restriction to X is defined as - {{ ( )} |{ } }X i iX

L p L

where if

( ) otherwisei i

X i

Xp

Given a Language L over X and an alphabet Y disjoint from X, the expansion of L is defined as the language Y

L over

X Y such that -

*{{ }|{ } , }i i i i i iYL x x L Y

Regular Expressions.Regular Expressions over alphabet

{} is a regular expression is a regular expression

|i i are regular expressionIf r and s are regular expressions then r+s, r s, and *r are regular expressions.The language associated with a regular expression is called a regular language.Theorem: The complement of a regular language is a regular language

Classes of LanguagesA language is prefix closed if

*, ,[ ]L L A language over

I O is I-progressive if

*, , [ ]i I o O L io L A language over

I O is I-Moore if

, ( ) , ( ' ')

[ [ ' ' ( ' ) ]]

L io i o

io L i o L i o L

Classes of LanguagesA language

*( )L I Oover

I O is prefix closed if

*( ) , ,[ ]I O i o I O i o L L A language

*( )L I Oover I O is IO-progressive if

*( ) , , ,[ ]I O i I o O L i o L

Composition of LanguagesGiven disjoint alphabets I,U,O and languages L1 over

I U and L2 over

U O, their synchronous composition is

1 2[( ) ( ) ]O I I O

L L .Given disjoint alphabets I,U,O and languages L1 over

I U and L2 over

U O, their parallel composition is

1 2[( ) ( ) ]O I I O

L L

.

“While synchronous product often is thought to be a simple – even uninteresting – type of coordination, it can be shown that, through the use of non-determinism, this conceptually simple coordination serves to model the most general‘asynchronous’ coordination, i.e. where processes progress at arbitrary rates relative to one another. In fact the ‘interleaving’ model, the most common model for asynchrony in the software community, can be viewed as a special case of this synchronous product” – Kurshan, 1994.

Uses non-determinism and self loops with null transitions at each state to model parallel with synchronous.

Finite AutomataA finite automaton (FA) is

( , , , , )F S r Q where S is a set of states, is an input alphabet, ( , ) : 2Ss S

is a transition relation, r is the initial state, and Q S is the set of accepting states.

An input sequence *

1( ... )nw w w leads from r to s’ if there exists a sequence of states,

0 1( ... ')nr s s s s such that 1 ( , )i i is s w for all i = 0, ... ,n-1.

w is in the language of F ( )( )w FL

if and only if w leads from r to 's Qi.e. ( , )r w Q where ( , )r w

denotes the set of states that can be reached from r under the input sequence w.

Theorem: A languages is regular if and only if it is the language of a finite automaton

Theorem: The set of all languages for deterministic FA is the same as for non-deterministic FA.(we will show how this can be done using the so-called subset construction.)

Operations on FA.projection ( X

F ): convert F over X Vinto F’ over X by replacing each edge (xv s s’) by the edge (x s s’)

lifting ( VF ): convert F over X into F’ over X V

by replacing each edge (x s s’) by ( ')Vx s s where V

stands for any v V

.

restriction (X

F ): convert F over X V

to F’ over V, by changing every edge (v s s’) where v V

into ( )'s s

expansion ( VF ): Change F over X into F’ over X V

by adding for each state, a self-loop for all v, i.e. add an edge

( )V s s where V stands for any v V

Operations on FA.Product Given FAs 1 2 and F F both over , the product is

1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2( , , , ( ), )F F F S S r r Q Q

where 1 2 1 1 2( , ) ( , ) ( , )s s s s

ComplementationIf F is deterministic, then ( , , , , )F S r Q S Q .

If F is non-deterministic, the only known way for complementation is to determinize it first. This is done by the sub-set construction.

CompositionSynchronous Composition. Given two automata 1F

and 2F over alphabets I U and U O

their synchronous composition is

1 2 1 2( ) ( )O I

F F F F

i.e. the product of the two automata when they are made to have the same alphabet.

Parallel Composition. Given two automata 1F and

2F on alphabets I U and U O

their synchronous composition is 1 2 1 2( ) ( )O I

F F F F i.e. the product of the two automata when they are made to have the same alphabet.

Subset ConstructionGiven NFA

( , , , , )F S r Q we create a DFA F’ with the same language as F:

' (2 , , ',{ }, ')SF r Q where ' { ' 2 | , '}S

q QQ s q s

and ˆ ' ˆ'( ', ) { | , ( , )}s ss s s s

s’

Theorem: F and F’ have the same language.Proof: ( , ) '({ }, )q r w q r w

Finite State Machines as Automata

A FSM is ( , , , , )M S I O T rwhere I is the set of input symbols, O the set of output symbols, r the initial state, and T(s,i,s’,o) is the transition relation. A transition (s,i,s’,o) from state s to s’ with output o can happen on input i can if and only if

( , , ', ) ( , , ', )s i s o T s i s o

If ( , ) ( ', )[( , , ', ) ]s i s o s i s o T

then M is complete, otherwise partial.

It is deterministic if for all (s,i) there is at most one (s’,o) such that ( , , ', )s i s o F

It is pseudo-non-deterministic if for all (s,i,o) there is at most one s’ such that ( , , ', )s i s o F

A FSM is of Moore type if

( , , ', ) ' '[( , ', ', ) ]s i s o T i n s i n o T

i.e. i’ can determine the next state but not the output.

Converting an FSM to an automatonAn FSM M can be converted into an automaton F by the following: ( ,( ), , , )F S I O r S where ( , ) { ' | ( , , ', ) }s io s s i s o T

Note that Q = S, i.e. all states are acceptingThe resulting automaton is typically not complete, since there are io combinations for which a next state is not defined. We can complete it by augmenting to include a transition to a new non-accepting state DCN.

DCN

s

f

f

FSMs as AutomataThe language of an FSM is defined to be the language of the associated automatonA pseudo non-deterministic FSM is one whose automaton is deterministic. The language of an FSM is prefix closed. The language of an FSM is I-progressive

Conversion M Fis done by grouping i/o on edges to (io) and making all states accepting.

Conversion F Mcan be done only if the language is prefix closed and I-progressive. In this case, delete all non-accepting states (prefix), and change edges from (io) to i/o.