Lecture 8
- 1. Lecture # 8 Automata Theory and formal languages (CSC-307) Muhammad Shahzeb
- 2. Example Consider the language L of strings of, defined over Σ = {a, b}, beginning and ending in different letters. The language L may be expressed by RE a(a + b)*b + b(a + b)*a The language L may be accepted by the following GTG
- 3. Example Continued … Another option of GTG for above language L
- 5. Example Consider the language L of strings, defined over Σ={a, b}, having triple a or triple b. The language L may be expressed by RE (a+b)* (aaa + bbb) (a+b)* This language may be accepted by the following GTG
- 7. NonDeterminism TGs and GTGs provide certain relaxations i.e. there may exist more than one path for a certain string or there may not be any path for a certain string, this property creates nondeterminism and it can also help in differentiating TGs or GTGs from FAs. Hence an FA is also called a Deterministic Finite Automaton (DFA).
- 8. Kleene’s Theorem If a language can be expressed by 1. FA or 2. TG or 3. RE then it can also be expressed by other two as well. It may be noted that the theorem is proved, proving the following three parts
- 9. Kleene’s Theorem continued … Kleene’s Theorem Part I If a language can be accepted by an FA then it can be accepted by a TG as well. Kleene’s Theorem Part II If a language can be accepted by a TG then it can be expressed by an RE as well. Kleene’s Theorem Part III If a language can be expressed by a RE then it can be accepted by an FA as well
- 10. Kleene’s Theorem continued … Proof(Kleene’s Theorem Part I) Since every FA can be considered to be a TG as well, therefore there is nothing to prove.
- 11. Kleene’s Theorem continued … Proof(Kleene’s Theorem Part II) To prove part II of the theorem, an algorithm consisting of different steps, is explained showing how a RE can be obtained corresponding to the given TG. For this purpose the notion of TG is changed to that of GTG i.e. the labels of transitions are corresponding REs.
- 12. Kleene’s Theorem part II cont … Objective of Algorithm: Basically this algorithm converts the given TG to GTG with one initial state along with a single loop, or one initial state connected with one final state by a single transition edge. The label of the loop or the transition edge will be the required RE.
- 13. Kleene’s Theorem part II cont … Step 1 If a TG has more than one start states, then introduce a new start state connecting the new state to the old start states by the transitions labeled by Λ and make the old start states the non- start states. This step can be shown by the following example
- 14. Example
- 16. Kleene’s Theorem part II Step 2: If a TG has more than one final states, then introduce a new final state, connecting the old final states to the new final state by the transitions labeled by Λ. This step can be shown by the previous example of TG, where the step 1 has already been processed
- 18. Kleene’s Theorem part II Step 3: If a state has two (more than one) incoming transition edges labeled by the corresponding REs, from the same state (including the possibility of loops at a state), then replace all these transition edges with a single transition edge labeled by the sum of corresponding REs. This step can be shown by a part of TG in the following example
- 19. Example The above TG can be reduced to
- 20. Note The step 3 can be generalized to any finite number of transitions as shown below The above TG can be reduced to
- 21. Kleene’s Theorem part II Step 4 (bypass and state elimination) If three states in a TG, are connected in sequence then eliminate the middle state and connect the first state with the third by a single transition (include the possibility of circuit as well) labeled by the RE which is the concatenation of corresponding two REs in the existing sequence. This step can be shown by a part of TG in the following example
- 22. Example To eliminate state 5 the above can be reduced to Consider the following example containing a circuit
- 23. Example Consider the part of a TG, containing a circuit at a state, as shown below To eliminate state 3 the above TG can be reduced to