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New Interpretation and Generalization of the Kameda-Weiner Method

Author Hellis Tamm

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  • Nondeterministic finite automata
  • NFA minimization
  • Kameda-Weinermethod
  • atoms of regular languages

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Abstract

We present a reinterpretation of the Kameda-Weiner method of finding a minimal nondeterministic finite automaton (NFA) of a language, in terms of atoms of the language. We introduce a method to generate NFAs from a set of languages, and show that the Kameda-Weiner method is a special case of it. Our method provides a unified view of the construction of several known NFAs, including the canonical residual finite state automaton and the atomaton of the language.

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Hellis Tamm. New Interpretation and Generalization of the Kameda-Weiner Method. In 43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 55, pp. 116:1-116:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2016.116

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Hellis Tamm

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