BCS503 VTU Notes: Theory of Computation 2022 PDF

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Theory of Computation

BCS503

2022 Scheme

Module 1 : Introduction to Finite Automata

Introduction to Finite Automata, Structural Representations, Automata and Complexity. The Central Concepts of Automata Theory. Deterministic Finite Automata, Nondeterministic Finite Automata, An Application: Text Search, Finite Automata with Epsilon-Transitions.

Module 2 : Regular Expressions

Regular Expressions, Finite Automata and Regular Expressions, Proving Languages not to be Regular. Closure Properties of Regular Languages, Equivalence and Minimization of Automata, Applications of Regular Expressions

Module 3 : Context-Free Grammars

Context-Free Grammars, Parse Trees, Ambiguity in Grammars and Languages, Ambiguity in Grammars and Languages, Definition of the Pushdown Automaton, The Languages of a PDA, Equivalence of PDA’s and CFG’s, Deterministic Pushdown Automata.

Module 4 : Normal Forms for Context-Free Grammars

Normal Forms for Context-Free Grammars, The Pumping Lemma for Context-Free Languages, Closure Properties of Context-Free Languages.

Module 5 : Introduction to Turing Machines

Introduction to Turing Machines: Problems That Computers Cannot Solve, The Turing Machine, Programming Techniques for Turing Machines, Extensions to the Basic Turing Machine, Undecidability: A Language That Is Not Recursively Enumerable.

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