Implementation and Application of Automata

Invited Lectures.- Languages Recognizable by Quantum Finite Automata.- The Language, the Expression, and the (Small) Automaton.- Technical Contributions.- Minimization of Non-deterministic Automata with Large Alphabets.- Simulating Two-Dimensional Recognizability by Pushdown and Queue Automata.- Component Composition Preserving Behavioural Contracts Based on Communication Traces.- Strong Retiming Equivalence of Synchronous Schemes.- Prime Normal Form and Equivalence of Simple Grammars.- An Incremental Algorithm for Constructing Minimal Deterministic Finite Cover Automata.- Finite Automata and Unions of Regular Patterns with Bounded Constant Segments.- Inside Vaucanson.- Deterministic Recognition of Trees Accepted by a Linear Pushdown Tree Automaton.- Shorter Regular Expressions from Finite-State Automata.- Wind in the Willows - Generating Music by Means of Tree Transducers.- On Deterministic Catalytic Systems.- Restricting the Use of Auxiliary Symbols for Restarting Automata.- A Class of Rational n-WFSM Auto-intersections.- Experiments with Deterministic ?-Automata for Formulas of Linear Temporal Logic.- Computing Affine Hulls over and from Sets Represented by Number Decision Diagrams.- Tree Automata and XPath on Compressed Trees.- Deeper Connections Between LTL and Alternating Automata.- The Structure of Subword Graphs and Suffix Trees of Fibonacci Words.- Observations on Determinization of Büchi Automata.- The Interval Rank of Monotonic Automata.- Compressing XML Documents Using Recursive Finite State Automata.- Non-backtracking Top-Down Algorithm for Checking Tree Automata Containment.- Size Reduction of Multitape Automata.- Robust Spelling Correction.- On Two-Dimensional Pattern Matching by Finite Automata.- Poster Abstracts.- Incremental and Semi-incremental Construction of Pseudo-Minimal Automata.- Is Learning RFSAs Better Than Learning DFAs?.- Learning Stochastic Finite Automata for Musical Style Recognition.- Simulation of Soliton Circuits.- Acyclic