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IB005 Formal Languages and Automata

Faculty of Informatics
Spring 2017

Extent and Intensity

4/2/0. 6 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Alternate Types of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

prof. RNDr. Mojmír Křetínský, CSc. (lecturer)
RNDr. Martin Jonáš (seminar tutor)
Bc. Tomáš Lamser (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Lukáš Másilko (seminar tutor)
doc. RNDr. Jan Strejček, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Bc. Katarína Kejstová (assistant)
Mgr. David Klaška (assistant)
Mgr. Juraj Major (assistant)
Miriama Sasaráková (assistant)
Bc. Kateřina Sloupová (assistant)
Tatiana Zbončáková (assistant)

Supervisor

prof. RNDr. Mojmír Křetínský, CSc.
Department of Computer Science - Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Mojmír Křetínský, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Computer Science - Faculty of Informatics

Timetable

Wed 10:00–11:50 D2, Thu 10:00–11:50 D1

Timetable of Seminar Groups:

IB005/01: Wed 14:00–15:50 A217, except Wed 10. 5., J. Strejček
IB005/02: Fri 8:00–9:50 B410, M. Jonáš
IB005/03: Thu 16:00–17:50 B411, M. Jonáš
IB005/04: Wed 18:00–19:50 A218, T. Lamser

Prerequisites

IB000 Math. Foundations of CS && ! IB102 Automata, Grammars, Complexity
Knowlegde corresponding to the courses IB000 Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

Fields of study the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives

At the end of the course students should be able to understand and explain the rich heritage of models and abstractions that have arisen over the years, and to develop the students' capacity to form abstractions of their own and reason in terms of them.

Syllabus

Languages and grammars. Chomsky hierarchy.
Finite automata and regular grammars.
Properties of regular languages. Applications.
Context-free grammars and pushdown automata.
Properties of context-free languages.
Turing machines (TM). Computable languages and functions, LBA. Properties of recursive and recursive enumerable languages.
Undecidability, halting problem for TM, Reduction, Post Correspondece Problem, undecidable problems from language theory.

Literature

ČERNÁ, Ivana, Mojmír KŘETÍNSKÝ and Antonín KUČERA. Formální jazyky a automaty I. Elportál, Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2006. ISSN 1802-128X. URL info
GRUSKA, Jozef. Foundations of computing. London: International Thompson Computer Press, 1997. xv, 716 s. ISBN 1-85032-243-0. info
HOPCROFT, John E. and Jeffrey D. ULLMAN. Introduction to automata theory, languages, and computation. Reading: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1979. 418 s., ob. ISBN 0-201-02988-X. info
CHYTIL, Michal. Automaty a gramatiky. Vyd. 1. Praha: SNTL - Nakladatelství technické literatury, 1984. 331 s. info
KOZEN, Dexter C. Automata and computability. New York: Springer, 1997. xiii, 400. ISBN 0387949070. info
SIPSER, Michael. Introduction to the theory of computation. 2nd ed. Boston: Thomson Course Technology, 2006. xix, 431. ISBN 0534950973. info

Teaching methods

Lectures, tutorials/exercises, and reading. Optional homeworks.

Assessment methods

Lectures and exercises. Optional homeworks. One midterm written exam and written final exam. Grading for the course: 20% midterm exam, 80% the final exam. Exams are written without any reading materials (closed book).

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