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Implementation and Application of Automata: 5th International Conference, Ciaa 2000, London, Ontario, Canada, July 24-25, 2000, Revised Papers - Lecture Notes in Computer Science S Yu

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Invited Lectures.- Synthesizing State-Based Object Systems from LSC Specifications.- Applications of Finite-State Transducers in Natural Language Processing.- Technical Contributions.- Fast Implementations of Automata Computations.- Regularly Extended Two-Way Nondeterministic Tree Automata.- Glushkov Construction for Multiplicities.- Implicit Structures to Implement NFA s from Regular Expressions.- New Finite Automaton Constructions Based on Canonical Derivatives.- Experiments with Automata Compression.- Computing Raster Images from Grid Picture Grammars.- A Basis for Looping Extensions to Discriminating-Reverse Parsing.- Automata for Pro-V Topologies.- Reachability and Safety in Queue Systems.- Generalizing the Discrete Timed Automaton.- Factorization of Ambiguous Finite-State Transducers.- MONA Implementation Secrets.- Cursors.- An Automaton Model of User-Controlled Navigation on the Web.- Direct Construction of Minimal Acyclic Subsequential Transducers.- Generic ?-Removal Algorithm for Weighted Automata.- An O(n2) Algorithm for Constructing Minimal Cover Automata for Finite Languages.- Unary Language Concatenation and Its State Complexity.- Implementation of a Strategy Improvement Algorithm for Finite-State Parity Games.- State Complexity and Jacobsthal s Function.- A Package for the Implementation of Block Codes as Finite Automata.- Regional Least-Cost Error Repair.- The Parameterized Complexity of Intersection and Composition Operations on Sets of Finite-State Automata.- Directly Constructing Minimal DFAs: Combining Two Algorithms by Brzozowski.- The MERLin Environment Applied to ?-NFAs.- Abstracts.- Visual Exploration of Generation Algorithms for Finite Automata on the Web.- TREEBAG.- Word Random Access Compression.- Extended Sequentialization of Transducers.- Lessons from INR in the Specification of Transductions.- Part-of-Speech Tagging with Two Sequential Transducers.- Solving Complex Problems Efficiently with Adaptive Automata."Publisher Marketing: This title constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata, CIAA 2000, held in London, Ontario, Canada, in July 2000. The 26 revised full papers presented together with two invited papers and seven abstracts have passed through two rounds of selection and revision. The topics addressed form theoretical as well as application-oriented viewpoints range from automata applications in software engineering, natural language and speech recognition, and image processing to new representations and algorithms for efficient implementation of automata and related structures.