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Course Catalog 2010-2011
MAT-41176 Theory of Automata, 5 cr |
Person responsible
Stephane Foldes
Requirements
Final exam plus classroom activity, particulars 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. | ||
4. | COURSE NOT GIVEN IN 2009-2010 |
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 |
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Correspondence of content
Course | Corresponds course | Description |
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Additional information
In 2010-2011: periods 1-2
Suitable for postgraduate studies