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Bottom-up automata on data trees and vertical XPath
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28th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2011)
Series: Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)
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- Publication Date: 2011-03-11
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Diego Figueira and Luc Segoufin. Bottom-up automata on data trees and vertical XPath. In 28th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2011). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 9, pp. 93-104, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2011)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2011.93
Abstract
A data tree is a tree whose every node carries a label from a finite alphabet and a datum from some infinite domain. We introduce a new model of automata over unranked data trees with a decidable emptiness problem. It is essentially a bottom-up alternating automaton with one register, enriched with epsilon-transitions that perform tests on the data values of the subtree. We show that it captures the expressive power of the vertical fragment of XPath -- containing the child, descendant, parent and ancestor axes -- obtaining thus a decision procedure for its satisfiability problem.
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- Decidability
- XPath
- Data trees
- Bottom-up tree automata
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