Height-Deterministic Pushdown Automata

Abstract. We define the notion of height-deterministic pushdown automata, a model where for any given input string the stack heights during any (nondeterministic) computation on the input are a priori fixed. Different subclasses of height-deterministic pushdown automata, strictly containing the class of regular languages and still closed under boolean language operations, are considered. Several such language classes have been described in the literature. Here, we suggest a natural and intuitive model that subsumes all the formalisms proposed so far by employing height-deterministic pushdown automata. Decidability and complexity questions are also considered.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: MFCS
• Authors: Dirk Nowotka, Jirí Srba
• Keywords: Boolean Language Operations, Height-deterministic Pushdown Automata, MFCS 2007, Stack Heights