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Original Articles

On States Observability in Deterministic Finite Automata

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Pages 17-30 | Received 01 Jan 1986, Published online: 19 Mar 2007
 

Abstract

The notion of state observability in systems theory is considered for finite automata and the class of languages recognized by automata with only observable states is investigated. Then one introduces the notion of semi-observable states: their number defines an infinite hierarchy of anti-AFL's in the family of regular languages. The succinctness of considering incompletely specified finite automata is also examined.

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