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Computational complexity and hardest languages of automata with abstract storages

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The complexities of problems related to automata with storages, an abstract automaton model introduced by Engelfriet, are analyzed. In particular, we show a close relationship between the word problem of two-way automata and the emptiness problem of one-way automata. Moreover, we give some hardest languages for classes of languages accepted by some automata with storages.

This work was supported by SFB 342, Teilprojekt A4 of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

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Dassow, J., Lange, KJ. (1991). Computational complexity and hardest languages of automata with abstract storages. In: Budach, L. (eds) Fundamentals of Computation Theory. FCT 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 529. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54458-5_64

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