Copyless Cost-Register Automata: Structure, Expressiveness, and Closure Properties

Authors Filip Mazowiecki, Cristian Riveros



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Filip Mazowiecki
Cristian Riveros

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Filip Mazowiecki and Cristian Riveros. Copyless Cost-Register Automata: Structure, Expressiveness, and Closure Properties. In 33rd Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 47, pp. 53:1-53:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2016.53

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Cost register automata (CRA) and its subclass, copyless CRA, were recently proposed by Alur et al. as a new model for computing functions over strings. We study structural properties, expressiveness, and closure properties of copyless CRA. We show that copyless CRA are strictly less expressive than weighted automata and are not closed under reverse operation. To find a better class we impose restrictions on copyless CRA, which ends successfully with a new robust computational model that is closed under reverse and other extensions.
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  • Cost Register Automata
  • Weighted Automata
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