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Chain-code pictures and collages generated by hyperedge replacement

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Abstract

Regular chain-code picture languages can be generated by collage grammars. As a consequence, all undecidability results known for regular chain-code languages can be adapted to picture languages generated by collage grammars.

This work was partially supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the ESPRIT Basic Research Working Group No. 7183: Computing by Graph Transformation (COMPUGRAPH II).

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Janice Cuny Hartmut Ehrig Gregor Engels Grzegorz Rozenberg

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Dassow, J., Habel, A., Taubenberger, S. (1996). Chain-code pictures and collages generated by hyperedge replacement. In: Cuny, J., Ehrig, H., Engels, G., Rozenberg, G. (eds) Graph Grammars and Their Application to Computer Science. Graph Grammars 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1073. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61228-9_102

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