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Course Catalog 2008-2009

MAT-41176 Theory of Automata, 5 cr

Course´s person responsible

Stephane Foldes

Implementations

  Lecture times and places Target group recommended to
Implementation 1


Per 1 :
Monday 14 - 16, K4108
Tuesday 14 - 15, TB215
Per 2 :
Monday 14 - 16, TC163
Tuesday 14 - 16, TC165

 
 


Requirements

Final exam plus activity points, particularly to be announced during first lecture.

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Content

Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Strings of symbols, languages and mathematical machines.     
2. Deterministic and non-deterministic computations. Turing machines, algorithms, decidability.     
3. Oracles and reducibility. Complexity of computation.     


Study material

Type Name Author ISBN URL Edition, availability, ... Examination material Language
Book   Introduction to the Theory of Computation   Sipser, M.       PWS Publ. Co., Boston 1996      English  


Prerequisites

Course O/R
MAT-21160 Algoritmimatematiikka Obligatory  

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Correspondence of content

Course Corresponds course  Description 
MAT-41176 Theory of Automata, 5 cr 73117 Theory of Automata, 3 cu  

More precise information per implementation

  Description Methods of instruction Implementation
Implementation 1        


Last modified15.08.2008
ModifierHanna Hämäläinen