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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.75
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-110190
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2019/11019/
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Lopez, Théodore ; Monmege, Benjamin ; Talbot, Jean-Marc

Determinisation of Finitely-Ambiguous Copyless Cost Register Automata

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Abstract

Cost register automata (CRA) are machines reading an input word while computing values using write-only registers: values from registers are combined using the two operations, as well as the constants, of a semiring. Particularly interesting is the subclass of copyless CRAs where the content of a register cannot be used twice for updating the registers. Originally deterministic, non-deterministic variant of CRA may also be defined: the semantics is then obtained by combining the values of all accepting runs with the additive operation of the semiring (as for weighted automata). We show that finitely-ambiguous copyless non-deterministic CRAs (i.e. the ones that admit a bounded number of accepting runs on every input word) can be effectively transformed into an equivalent copyless (deterministic) CRA, without requiring any specific property on the semiring. As a corollary, this also shows that regular look-ahead can effectively be removed from copyless CRAs.

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@InProceedings{lopez_et_al:LIPIcs:2019:11019,
  author =	{Th{\'e}odore Lopez and Benjamin Monmege and Jean-Marc Talbot},
  title =	{{Determinisation of Finitely-Ambiguous Copyless Cost Register Automata}},
  booktitle =	{44th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2019)},
  pages =	{75:1--75:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-117-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{138},
  editor =	{Peter Rossmanith and Pinar Heggernes and Joost-Pieter Katoen},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2019/11019},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-110190},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.75},
  annote =	{Keywords: Cost-register automata, Look-ahead removal, Unambiguity, Determinisation}
}

Keywords: Cost-register automata, Look-ahead removal, Unambiguity, Determinisation
Collection: 44th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2019)
Issue Date: 2019
Date of publication: 20.08.2019

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