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Inside Vaucanson

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This paper presents some features of the Vaucanson platform. We describe some original algorithms on weighted automata and transducers (computation of the quotient, conversion of a regular expression into a weighted automaton, and composition). We explain how complex declarations due to the generic programming are masked from the user and finally we present a proposal for an XML format that allows implicit descriptions for simple types of automata.

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Claveirole, T., Lombardy, S., O’Connor, S., Pouchet, LN., Sakarovitch, J. (2006). Inside Vaucanson. In: Farré, J., Litovsky, I., Schmitz, S. (eds) Implementation and Application of Automata. CIAA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3845. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11605157_10

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