1. Algorithm to Generate DFA for AND-operator in Regular Expression
- Author
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Mirzakhmet Syzdykov
- Subjects
TheoryofComputation_MATHEMATICALLOGICANDFORMALLANGUAGES ,TheoryofComputation_COMPUTATIONBYABSTRACTDEVICES ,Finite-state machine ,Deterministic finite automaton ,Regular language ,Computer science ,Intersection (set theory) ,Powerset construction ,Pattern recognition (psychology) ,Regular expression ,Bitwise operation ,Algorithm ,Computer Science::Formal Languages and Automata Theory - Abstract
For the past time a number of algorithms were presented to produce a deterministic finite automaton (DFA) for the regular expression. These algorithms could be divided into what they used as an initial data from which to produce DFA. The method to produce DFA from non-deterministic finite automaton (NFA) by a subset construction could be generalized for extended regular expressions, including intersection, negation and subtraction of the regular languages. In this article the modified algorithm of subset construction is presented; this algorithm produces a unigram DFA for the regular expression with extensions (specifically AND-operator). General Terms Pattern Recognition; Finite Automata; Algorithms.
- Published
- 2015