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An upper bound for transforming self-verifying automata into deterministic ones

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2007

Ira Assent  and
Sebastian Seibert
Ira Assent
Affiliation:
RWTH Aachen, Lehrstuhl für Informatik IX, Ahornstr. 55, 52074 Aachen, Germany; assent@informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Sebastian Seibert
Affiliation:
ETH Zürich, Department Informatik, Informationstechnologie und Ausbildung, ETH Zentrum, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland; sseibert@inf.ethz.ch
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Abstract

This paper describes a modification of the power set construction for the transformation of self-verifying nondeterministic finite automata to deterministic ones. Using a set counting argument, the upper bound for this transformation can be lowered from $2^n$ to $O(\frac{2^n}{\sqrt{n}}).$

Keywords

Self-verifying nondeterministic automatadescriptional complexitypower set construction
Type
Research Article
Information
RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , July 2007 , pp. 261 - 265
Copyright
© EDP Sciences, 2007

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