Linz, Peter <br/><br/>
An introduction to formal languages and automata / 
Peter Linz 
 - Fifth Edition 
 - Sudbury, Massachusetts :  Jone and Bartlett Learning,  c2012 
 - xiii, 437 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>1. Introduction to the theory of computation -- 2. Finite automata -- 3. Regular languages and regular grammars -- 4. Properties of regular language -- 5. Context-free languages -- 6. Simplification of context-free grammars and normal forms -- 7. Pushdown automata -- 8. Properties of context-free languages -- 9. Turing machines -- 10. Other models of Turing machines -- 11. A hierarchy of formal language and automata -- 12. Limits of algorithmic computation -- 13. Other models of computation -- 14. An overview of computational complexity. 
<br/><br/> This book is designed for an introductory course on formal languages, automata, computability, and related matters. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781449615529 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>MACHINE THEORY
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QA 267.3 .L56 2012