Course Catalog 2012-2013
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Course Catalog 2012-2013

MAT-41176 Theory of Automata, 5 cr

Additional information

Periods 1-2
Suitable for postgraduate studies

Person responsible

Stephane Foldes

Lessons

Study type P1 P2 P3 P4 Summer Implementations Lecture times and places
Lectures
 17 h/per
+18 h/per

 

 

 
MAT-41176 2012-01 Monday 17 - 19, TB219
Tuesday 15 - 16, TB219

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  

More precise information per implementation

Implementation Description Methods of instruction Implementation
MAT-41176 2012-01        

Last modified21.06.2012