Forbidding sets and normal forms for language forbidding-enforcing systems

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

3-12-2012

Abstract

This paper investigates ways to reduce redundancy in forbidding sets for language forbidding-enforcing systems. A language forbidding set disallows combinations of subwords in a word, while permitting the presence of some parts of these combinations. Since a forbidding set is a potentially infinite set of finite sets of words, finding normal forms for forbidding sets is interesting from a combinatorics on words perspective and important for the theoretical investigation of language fe-systems, the connection between variants of fe-systems, and their applications to molecular computation. This paper shows that the minimal normal forms for forbidding sets defining classes of languages (fe-families) are also normal forms for forbidding sets defining single languages (fe-languages), but not necessarily minimal. Thus, an investigation of minimality and sufficient conditions for fe-languages are presented and it is shown that in special cases they coincide with a minimal normal form for fe-families. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.

Publication Title

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volume

7183 LNCS

First Page

289

Last Page

300

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1007/978-3-642-28332-1_25

ISSN

03029743

E-ISSN

16113349

ISBN

9783642283314

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