Course: Theory of Automata and Formal Languages

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Course title Theory of Automata and Formal Languages
Course code KI/EAFJ
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course unspecified
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 7
Language of instruction English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Barilla Jiří, doc. Ing. Mgr. CSc.
Course content
1. Finite Automata (KA): representations, languages recognizable by finite automata 2. Reduction and implementation of finite automata 3. Non-deterministic finite automata 4. Grammars: Chomsky's distribution of grammars, regular grammars 5. Regular languages: closure properties, relation to KA 6. Applications of regular languages and automata: regular expressions and their types 7. Context-free grammars 8. Pushdown automata 9. Applications of context-free languages and stack automata: LR/LL syntactic parser, ANTLR 10. Turing machines: models and their properties 11. Undecidability: the Church-Turing thesis, the Post correspondence problem 12. Equivalent representations of Turing machines: RASP 13. Practical applications

Learning activities and teaching methods
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Learning outcomes
In this course, students will learn the theoretical foundations of finite automata, grammars and pushdown automata. Emphasis is placed on connecting mathematical theory with practical implementation and application of the theory to current technologies.

Prerequisites
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Assessment methods and criteria
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