Simulation of two-way pushdown automata revisited

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Abstract

Dedicated to David A. Schmidt on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday The linear-time simulation of 2-way deterministic pushdown automata (2DPDA) by the Cook and Jones constructions is revisited. Following the semantics-based approach by Jones, an interpreter is given which, when extended with random-access memory, performs a linear-time simulation of 2DPDA. The recursive interpreter works without the dump list of the original constructions, which makes Cook's insight into linear-time simulation of exponential-time automata more intuitive and the complexity argument clearer. The simulation is then extended to 2-way nondeterministic pushdown automata (2NPDA) to provide for a cubic-time recognition of context-free languages. The time required to run the final construction depends on the degree of nondeterminism. The key mechanism that enables the polynomial-time simulations is the sharing of computations by memoization.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelSemantics, abstract interpretation, and reasoning about programs
RedaktørerAnindya Banerjee, Olivier Danvy, Kyung-Goo Doh, John Hatcliff
Antal sider9
Vol/bind129
Publikationsdato2013
Sider250-258
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2013
NavnElectronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
ISSN2075-2180

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