Two-Way Finite Automata: Old and Recent Results

The notion of two-way automata was introduced at the very beginning of automata theory. In 1959, Rabin and Scott and, independently, Shepherdson, proved that these models, both in the deterministic and in the nondeterministic versions, have the same power of one-way automata, namely, they characteri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Giovanni Pighizzini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Publishing Association 2012-08-01
Series:Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Online Access:http://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.2755v1