Fuzzy grammar theory based on lattices

In this paper, on the basis of breadth-first and depth-first ways, we establish a fundamental framework of fuzzy grammars based on lattices, which provides a necessary tool for the analysis of fuzzy automata. The relationship among finite automata with membership values in lattices (l-VFAs), lattice-valued regular grammars (l-RGs) and lattice-valued deterministic regular grammars (l-DRGs) is investigated. It is demonstrated that, based on each semantic way, l-VFAs and l-RGs are equivalent in the sense that they accept or generate the same classes of fuzzy languages. Furthermore, it is proved that l-VFAs,?l-valued deterministic finite automata, l-RGs and l-DRGs are equivalent based on depth-first way. For any l-RG,?the language based on breadth-first way coincides with the language based on depth-first way if and only if the truth-valued domain l is a distributive lattice.     

Finite automata theory with membership values in lattices

In this paper, we study finite automata with membership values in a lattice, which are called lattice-valued finite automata. The extended subset construction of lattice-valued finite automata is introduced, then the equivalences between lattice-valued finite automata, lattice-valued deterministic finite automata and lattice-valued finite automata with ε-moves are proved. A simple characterization of lattice-valued languages recognized by lattice-valued finite automata is given, then it is proved that the Kleene theorem holds in the frame of lattice-setting. A minimization algorithm of lattice-valued deterministic finite automata is presented. In particular, the role of the distributive law for the truth valued domain of finite automata is analyzed: the distributive law is not necessary to many constructions of lattice-valued finite automata, but it indeed provides some convenience in simply processing lattice-valued finite automata.     

格值下推自动机与格值上下文无关文法

引入了格值下推自动机、格值上下文无关文法及它们的语言的概念,证明了格值下推自动机以两种不同方式接受的语言类的等价性,研究了格值Chomsky范式文法、格值上下文无关文法及其派生所产生的语言的等价条件,揭示了在一定条件下,格值下推自动机接受的语言类与格值上下文无关文法产生的语言类的等价性,证明了有理格值语言均被格值下推自动机识别。     

取值于赋值幺半群的加权正则文法语言

正则文法是研究自动机的重要工具。引入取值于赋值幺半群的加权正则文法、加权类正则文法的定义,讨论了赋值幺半群上加权正则文法、加权类正则文法和加权有限自动机(WFA)的关系。证明了在赋值幺半群上,已知一个加权正则文法或加权类正则文法,分别存在一个WFA与之等价。定义了可分配的赋值幺半群,证明了在可分配的赋值幺半群上已知一个WFA,存在一个加权正则文法和加权类正则文法与之等价,即证明了可分配的赋值幺半群上加权正则文法、加权类正则文法和WFA在生成语言上等价,并举例说明了赋值幺半群的可分配性不是已知WFA存在与之等价的加权正则文法或加权类正则文法的必要条件。     

Fuzzy multiset finite automata and their languages

Inspired by the generalizations from grammars and finite automata to fuzzy grammars and fuzzy finite automata, respectively, we introduce the concepts of fuzzy multiset grammars and fuzzy multiset finite automata (FMFAs), as the generalizations of multiset grammars and multiset finite automata, respectively. The relationship between fuzzy multiset regular grammars and FMFAs is discussed. Furthermore, we define some operations on fuzzy multiset languages, and prove that the family of FMFA languages is closed under the operations.     

量子自动机的刻画

澄清了各类量子自动机之间的相互关系,并给出了量子自动机的各种等价刻画定理.引入G-量子自动机、g-量子自动机、(广义)量子自动机及G-量子文法和g-量子文法,并阐明了它们与其他量子自动机之间的等价关系.在一定条件下讨论了G(g)-量子自动机与G(g)-量子文法的等价性,从而解决了关于量子文法产生量子正规语言的问题.讨论了量子语言与正规语言的关系,特别是回答了Gudder提出的两个公开问题.最后,给出了一种减少状态空间维数的方法.     

基于量子逻辑的自动机和文法理论

初步建立了基于量子逻辑的自动机和文法理论的基本框架.引入了量子文法(称为l值文法),特别是证明了任意l值正规文法生成的语言(称为量子语言)等价于某种基于量子逻辑且含动作(的自动机(称为l值自动机)识别的语言,反之,任意l值自动机识别的语言等价于某l值正规文法生成的语言.建立了l值泵引理,并得到量子语言的判定性刻画.最后简要讨论了正规文法与量子文法(即l值正规文法)的关系.因此,为进一步研究更复杂的量子自动机(如量子下推自动机和Turing机)和量子文法(如量子上下文无关文法和上下文有关文法)奠定了基础.     

格值有限状态自动机的半群

提出了格值有限状态自动机的定义,给出了格值有限状态自动机的两种同余关系,研究了格值有限状态自动机的半群的若干性质,最后给出了两种有限半群E(A)和E(A)的关系。     

A hierarchy of uniquely parsable grammar classes and deterministic acceptors

We introduce a new class of grammars called uniquely parsable grammars (UPGs). A UPG is a kind of phrase structure grammar having a restricted type of rewriting rules, where parsing can be performed without backtracking. We show that, in spite of such restriction to the rules, UPGs are universal in their generating ability. We then define three subclasses of UPGs. They are M-UPGs (monotonic UPGs), RC-UPGs (UPGs with right-terminating and context-free-like rules), and REG-UPGs (regular UPGs). It is proved that the generating abilities of the classes of M-UPGs, RC-UPGs, and REG-UPGs are exactly characterized by the classes of deterministic linear-bounded automata, deterministic pushdown automata, and deterministic finite automata, respectively. Especially, the class of RC-UPGs gives a very simple grammatical characterization of the class of deterministic context-free languages. Thus, these four classes form a deterministic counterpart of the classical Chomsky hierarchy. Received August 30, 1995 / May 13, 1996     

基于完备剩余格值逻辑的自动机和文法理论

初步建立基于完备剩余格值逻辑自动机与文法理论的基本框架。引入l值正则文法的概念,证明了任意l值自动机识别的语言等价于某种l值正则文法所生成的语言,反之,任意l值正则文法所生成的语言等价于某种l值自动机识别的语言。获得l值自动机及被l值自动机识别的语言的连接问题刻画。特别地,建立l值和L值泵引理,并得到l值语言的判定性刻画。最后,揭示带ε移动的l值自动机与不带ε移动的l值自动机之间的两个等价关系。     

格值有限自动机等价判定算法

引入了完备L-Fuzzy矩阵的概念,给出了基于格半群的模糊有限自动机的形式化定义,即完备格值有限自动机,研究了它的主要性质;给出了完备格值有限自动机的行为矩阵,从行为矩阵出发,给出了自动机状态等价和自动机等价的定义。最后,得到了该类自动机等价的判定算法。     

Formal power series and regular operations on fuzzy languages

In this paper we study formal power series over a quantale with coefficients in the algebra of all languages over a given alphabet, and representation of fuzzy languages by these formal power series. This representation generalizes the well-known representation of fuzzy languages by their cut and kernel languages. We show that regular operations on fuzzy languages can be represented by regular operations on power series which are defined by means of operations on ordinary languages. We use power series in study of fuzzy languages which are recognized by fuzzy finite automata and deterministic finite automata, and we study closure properties of the set of polynomials and the set of polynomials with regular coefficients under regular operations on power series.     

Minimization of states in automata theory based on finite lattice-ordered monoids

In this study, we consider a concept of complete L-fuzzy matrix, define complete lattice-valued finite automata (CLFAs) and study their properties. The definitions of statewise equivalence relations and automata equivalence relations of a CLFA are given, two algorithms are aimed at the minimization of states of a CLFA.     

Controlled finite automata

This paper discusses finite automata regulated by control languages over their states and transition rules. It proves that under both regulations, regular-controlled finite automata and context-free-controlled finite automata characterize the family of regular languages and the family of context-free languages, respectively. It also establishes conditions under which any state-controlled finite automaton can be turned into an equivalent transition-controlled finite automaton and vice versa. The paper also demonstrates a close relation between these automata and programmed grammars. Indeed, it proves that finite automata controlled by languages generated by propagating programmed grammars with appearance checking are computationally complete. In fact, it demonstrates that this computational completeness holds even in terms of these automata with a reduced number of states.     

Look-ahead on pushdowns

The general notion of look-ahead on pushdowns is used to prove that (1) the deterministic iterated pushdown languages are closed under complementation, (2) the deterministic iterated pushdown languages are properly included in the non-deterministic iterated pushdown languages; the counter example is a very simple linear context-free language, independent of the amount of iteration, (3) LL(k) iterated indexed grammars can be parsed by deterministic iterated pushdown automata, and (4) it is decidable whether an iterated indexed grammar is LL(k). Analogous results hold for iterated pushdown automata with regular look-ahead on the input, and LL-regular iterated indexed grammars.     

From Syntactic Theories to Interpreters: Automating the Proof of Unique Decomposition

Developing syntactic theories for reasoning about programming languages usually involves proving a unique-decomposition lemma. The proof of such a lemma is tedious, error-prone, and is usually attempted many times during the design of a theory. We therefore investigate the automation of such proofs.We map the unique-decomposition lemma to the problems of checking equivalence and ambiguity of syntactic definitions. Because checking these properties of context-free grammars is undecidable, we work with regular tree grammars and use algorithms on finite tree automata to perform the checking. To make up for the insufficient expressiveness of regular tree grammars, we extend the basic framework with built-in types and constants, contexts, and polymorphic types.Our implementation extends an earlier system by Xiao et al. [16] that translates semantic specifications expressed as syntactic theories to interpreters. We have successfully used the combined system to generate interpreters and verify the unique-decomposition lemma for a number of examples.     

Representation of Finite State Automata in Recurrent Radial Basis Function Networks

In this paper, we propose some techniques for injecting finite state automata into Recurrent Radial Basis Function networks (R2BF). When providing proper hints and constraining the weight space properly, we show that these networks behave as automata. A technique is suggested for forcing the learning process to develop automata representations that is based on adding a proper penalty function to the ordinary cost. Successful experimental results are shown for inductive inference of regular grammars.     

Inference of regular languages using state merging algorithms with search

State merging algorithms have emerged as the solution of choice for the problem of inferring regular grammars from labeled samples, a known NP-complete problem of great importance in the grammatical inference area. These methods derive a small deterministic finite automaton from a set of labeled strings (the training set), by merging parts of the acceptor that corresponds to this training set. Experimental and theoretical evidence have shown that the generalization ability exhibited by the resulting automata is highly correlated with the number of states in the final solution.As originally proposed, state merging algorithms do not perform search. This means that they are fast, but also means that they are limited by the quality of the heuristics they use to select the states to be merged. Sub-optimal choices lead to automata that have many more states than needed and exhibit poor generalization ability.In this work, we survey the existing approaches that generalize state merging algorithms by using search to explore the tree that represents the space of possible sequences of state mergings. By using heuristic guided search in this space, many possible state merging sequences can be considered, leading to smaller automata and improved generalization ability, at the expense of increased computation time.We present comparisons of existing algorithms that show that, in widely accepted benchmarks, the quality of the derived solutions is improved by applying this type of search. However, we also point out that existing algorithms are not powerful enough to solve the more complex instances of the problem, leaving open the possibility that better and more powerful approaches need to be designed.     

An overview of quantum computation models: quantum automata

Quantum automata, as theoretical models of quantum computers, include quantum finite automata (QFA), quantum sequential machines (QSM), quantum pushdown automata (QPDA), quantum Turing machines (QTM), quantum cellular automata (QCA), and the others, for example, automata theory based on quantum logic (orthomodular lattice-valued automata). In this paper, we try to outline a basic progress in the research on these models, focusing on QFA, QSM, QPDA, QTM, and orthomodular lattice-valued automata. Also, other models closely relative to them are mentioned. In particular, based on the existing results in the literature, we finally address a number of problems to be studied in future.