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FSTTCS
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Synthesis of Finite-state and Definable Winning Strategies
ABSTRACT. Church's Problem asks for the construction of a procedure which, given a logical specification on sequence pairs, realizes for any input sequence I an output sequen...
Alexander Rabinovich
FSTTCS
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
On Nondeterministic Unranked Tree Automata with Sibling Constraints
ABSTRACT. We continue the study of bottom-up unranked tree automata with equality and disequality constraints between direct subtrees. In particular, we show that the emptiness pro...
Christof Löding, Karianto Wong
FSTTCS
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Fighting bit Rot with Types (Experience Report: Scala Collections)
We report on our experiences in redesigning Scala’s collection libraries, focussing on the role that type systems play in keeping software architectures coherent over time. Type ...
Martin Odersky, Adriaan Moors
FSTTCS
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Kolmogorov Complexity in Randomness Extraction
We clarify the role of Kolmogorov complexity in the area of randomness extraction. We show that a computable function is an almost randomness extractor if and only if it is a Kolm...
John M. Hitchcock, Aduri Pavan, N. V. Vinodchandra...
FSTTCS
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Randomness extractors -- applications and constructions
Randomness extractors are efficient algorithms which convert weak random sources into nearly perfect ones. While such purification of randomness was the original motivation for c...
Avi Wigderson