We use syntactic monoid methods, together with an enhanced pumping lemma, to investigate the structure of splicing languages. We obtain an algorithm for deciding whether a regular...
The study of hairpin-free words has been initiated in the context of DNA computing. DNA strands that, theoretically speaking, are finite strings over the alphabet {A, G, C, T} are...
We continue our investigation on the relationship between regular languages and syntactic monoid size. In this paper we confirm the conjecture on two generator transformation semi...
— This paper presents a decidable characterization of tree languages that can be defined by a boolean combination of Σ1 formulas. This is a tree extension of the Simon theorem,...
We propose a new approach to the notion of recognition, which departs from the classical definitions by three specific features. First, it does not rely on automata. Secondly, it...