A Note on Probabilistic Rebound Automata

Lan ZHANG  Tokio OKAZAKI  Katsushi INOUE  Akira ITO  Yue WANG 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems  Vol.E81-D  No.10  pp.1045-1052
Publication Date: 1998/10/20
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Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Automata,Languages and Theory of Computing
Keyword: 
probabilistic rebound automatonone-marker rebound automaton two-way nondeterministic one counter automatoncontext-free languageclosure property

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Summary: 
This paper introduces a probabilistic rebound automaton (pra), and investigates its accepting power and closure property. We show that (1) the class of languages recognized by pra's with error probability less than 1/2, PRA, is incomparable with the class of context-free languages, (2) there is a language accepted by a two-way nondeterministic one counter automaton, but not in PRA, and (3) there is a language accepted by a deterministic one-marker rebound automaton, but not in PRA. We also show that PRA is not closed under concatenation and Kleene + .