Algebraic foundations in computer science : essays dedicated to symeon bozapalidis on the occasion of his retirement

This collection of 15 papers honors the career of Symeon Bozapalidis. The focus is on his teaching subjects: algebra, linear algebra, mathematical logic, number theory, automata theory, tree languages and series, algebraic semantics, and fuzzy languages

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kuich, Werner , 1941- (Author), Rahonis, George (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg, Germany ; New York : Springer , c2011
Series:Lecture notes in computer science 7020
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Selected decision problems for square-refinement collage grammars
  • 2. Weighted tree automata over valuation monoids and their characterization by weighted logics
  • 3. Partial conway and iteration semiring-semimodule pairs
  • 4. Kleene theorem in partial conway theories with applications
  • 5. Rational transformations and a kleene theorem for power series over rational monoids
  • 6. Equational weighted tree transformations with discounting
  • 7. Quantum automata theory - a review
  • 8. Graph automata: the algebraic properties of abelian relational graphoids
  • 9. A survey on picture-walking automata
  • 10. Identity problems, solvability of equations and unification in varieties of semigroups related to varieties of groups
  • 11. Algebraic systems and pushdown automata
  • 12. Where automatic structures benefit from weighted automata
  • 13. Survey: weighted extended top-down tree transducers part III - composition
  • 14. Valuations of weighted automata: doing it in a rational way
  • 15. Selected combinatorial properties of random intersection graphs