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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2017.112
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-74720
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2017/7472/
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Alur, Rajeev ; Mamouras, Konstantinos ; Stanford, Caleb

Automata-Based Stream Processing

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Abstract

We propose an automata-theoretic framework for modularly expressing computations on streams of data. With weighted automata as a starting point, we identify three key features that are useful for an automaton model for stream processing: expressing the regular decomposition of streams whose data items are elements of a complex type (e.g., tuple of values), allowing the hierarchical nesting of several different kinds of aggregations, and specifying modularly the parallel execution and combination of various subcomputations. The combination of these features leads to subtle efficiency considerations that concern the interaction between nondeterminism, hierarchical nesting, and parallelism. We identify a syntactic restriction where the nondeterminism is unambiguous and parallel subcomputations synchronize their outputs. For automata satisfying these restrictions, we show that there is a space- and time-efficient streaming evaluation algorithm. We also prove that when these restrictions are relaxed, the evaluation problem becomes inherently computationally expensive.

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@InProceedings{alur_et_al:LIPIcs:2017:7472,
  author =	{Rajeev Alur and Konstantinos Mamouras and Caleb Stanford},
  title =	{{Automata-Based Stream Processing}},
  booktitle =	{44th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2017)},
  pages =	{112:1--112:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-041-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{80},
  editor =	{Ioannis Chatzigiannakis and Piotr Indyk and Fabian Kuhn and Anca Muscholl},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2017/7472},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-74720},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2017.112},
  annote =	{Keywords: weighted automata, Quantitative Regular Expressions, stream processing}
}

Keywords: weighted automata, Quantitative Regular Expressions, stream processing
Collection: 44th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2017)
Issue Date: 2017
Date of publication: 07.07.2017

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