Course Catalog 2010-2011
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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 
MAT-41176 Theory of Automata, 5 cr 73117 Theory of Automata, 3 cu  

Additional information

In 2010-2011: periods 1-2
Suitable for postgraduate studies

Last modified25.08.2010