Graduate Comprehensive Examination
Formal Languages and Automata Theory
Coordinator:
Phil Bernhard
<pbernhar@cs.fit.edu>.
Suggested Texts for Review:
- Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages and Computation by
Hopcroft and Ullman.
- Languges and Machines by Thomas Sudkamp
Concepts for Review:
- Mathematical Induction
- Countable and Uncountable Sets
- Diagonalization
- Recursive Definitions
- Deterministic Finite State Machines
- Non-Deterministic Finite State Machines
- Mealy Machines
- Push-down Automata
- Linear-Bounded Automata
- Turing Machines (Single and Multi-Tape, Multi-Track, etc.)
- Universal Turning Machines
- Regular Grammars
- Context-Free Grammars
- Context-Sensitive Grammars
- Unrestricted Grammars
- Greibach and Chomsky Normal Forms
- Pumping Lemma for Regular Languages
- Pumping Lemma for Context-Free Languages
- Regular Expressions
- Chomsky Hierarchy
- Closure Properties
- Decidable and Undecidable Problems
- The Halting Problem
Last modified: Tue Jan 25 09:56:42 EST 2000