Title
Stateless One-Way Multi-Head Finite Automata With Pebbles
Abstract
Stateless variants of deterministic one-way multi-head finite automata with pebbles, that is, automata where the heads can drop, sense, and pick up pebbles, are studied. The relation between heads and pebbles is investigated, and a proper double hierarcliy concerning these two resources is obtained. Moreover, it is shown that a conversion of an arbitrary automaton to a stateless automaton can always be achieved at the cost of additional heads and/or pebbles. On the other hand, there are languages where one head cannot be traded for any number of additional pebbles and vice versa. Finally, the emptiness problem and related problems are shown to be undecidable even for the 'simplest' model, namely, for stateless one-way finite automata with two heads and one pebble.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1142/S0129054114400292
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Stateless multi-head finite automata, pebbles automata, head hierarchy, pebble hierarchy, decidability questions
Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Automaton,Finite-state machine,Pebble,Hierarchy,Stateless protocol,Versa,Mathematics,Undecidable problem
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
25
8
0129-0541
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
18
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Martin Kutrib177889.77
Andreas Malcher220439.40
Matthias Wendlandt33214.13