Course: Theory of Automata and Formal Languages

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Course title Theory of Automata and Formal Languages
Course code KI/AFJ
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 2
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction unspecified
Work placements unspecified
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Barilla Jiří, doc. Ing. Mgr. CSc.
  • Škvor Jiří, RNDr. Ph.D.
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: Church-Turing thesis, the Post correspondence problem 12. Equivalent representations of Turing machines: RASP 13. Practical applications

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

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Recommended literature
  • Hopocroft J., Ulman J. Formálne jazyky a automaty. ALFA Bratislava, 1978.
  • Hopocroft J., Ulman J. Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages and Computation. Addison Wesley, 1979.
  • Chytil M. Automaty a gramatiky. SNTL, Praha, 1984.
  • Chytil M. Teorie automatů a formálních jazyků. (Skripta), SPN Praha, 1978.
  • Kolář J., Štěpánková O., Chytil M. Logika, algebry a grafy. SNTL Praha, 1989.
  • Meduna A. Automata and Languages. Springer, 2000.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Science Study plan (Version): Information Systems (A14) Category: Informatics courses 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter