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How Useful are Dag Automata?
Siva Anantharaman 1, Paliath Narendran 1, 2, Michaël Rusinowitch 1, 3
(2004)

Tree automata are widely used in various contexts; and their emptiness problem is known to be decidable in polynomial time. Dag automata -- with or without labels -- are natural extensions of tree automata, which can also be used for solving problems. Our purpose in this work is to show that algebraically they behave quite differently: the class of dag automata is not closed under complementation, dag automata are not determinizable, their membership problem turns out to be NP-complete, and universality is undecidable; and proving emptiness is NP-complete even for deterministic labeled dag automata.
1 :  Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orléans (LIFO)
Université d'Orléans : EA4022 – Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Bourges
2 :  Department of Computer Science [Albany] (CS)
State University of New York at Albany
3 :  CASSIS (INRIA Lorraine - LORIA / LIFC)
INRIA – CNRS : FRE2661 – Université de Franche-Comté – Université Henri Poincaré - Nancy I – Université Nancy II – Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (INPL)
Informatique/Informatique et langage
tree automata – labels – determinism – complementation – universality – decidability – complexity – E-Unification.
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