Hopcroft, John E.

Introduction to automata theory, languages, and computation / John E. Hopcroft and Jeffrey D. Ullman. - Massachusetts : Addision-Wesley Publishing Company, c1979 - x, 411 pages ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1. Preliminaries -- Chapter 2. Finite automata and regular expressions -- Chapter 3. Properties of regular sets -- Chapter 4. Context-free grammar -- Chapter 5. Pushdown automata -- Chapter 6. Properties of context-free languages -- Chapter 7. Turing machines -- Chapter 8. Undecidability -- Chapter 9. The chomsky hierarchy -- Chapter 10. Deterministic context-free languages -- Chapter 11. Closure properties of families of languages -- Chapter 12. Computational complexity theory -- Chapter 13. Intractable problems -- Chapter 14. Highlights of other important language classes.

Ten years ago the authors undertook to produce a book converting the known material on formal languages, automata theory, and computational complexity.

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MACHINE THEORY

QA 237 .H67 1979