Title
Existence and nonexistence of descriptive patterns
Abstract
In the present paper, we study the existence of descriptive patterns, i. e. patterns that cover all words in a given set through morphisms and that are optimal in terms of revealing commonalities of these words. Our main result shows that if patterns may be mapped to words by arbitrary morphisms, then there exist infinite sets of words that do not have a descriptive pattern. This answers a question posed by Jiang et al. (Pattern languages with and without erasing, International Journal of Computer Mathematics 50 (1994)). Since the problem of whether a pattern is descriptive depends on the inclusion relation of so-called pattern languages, our technical considerations lead to a number of deep insights into the inclusion problem for and the topology of the class of terminal-free E-pattern languages.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1016/j.tcs.2010.05.033
Theoretical Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Pattern languages,Descriptive patterns
Inductive reasoning,Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Formal language,Algebra,Infinite set,Morphism,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
411
34
Theoretical Computer Science
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.40
9
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dominik D. Freydenberger1899.14
Daniel Reidenbach215418.06