Minimizing Tree Automata for Unranked Trees
Minimizing Tree Automata for Unranked Trees
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最小化未排序树的树自动机
DOI:
10.1007/11601524_15
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发表时间:
2005
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通讯作者:
Joachim Niehren
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作者:
W. Martens;Joachim Niehren
Automata for unranked trees form a foundation for XML schemas, querying and pattern languages. We study the problem of efficiently minimizing such automata. We start with the unranked tree automata (UTAs) that are standard in database theory, assuming bottom-up determinism and that horizontal recursion is represented by deterministic finite automata. We show that minimal UTAs in that class are not unique and that minimization isnp-hard. We then study more recent automata classes that do allow for polynomial time minimization. Among those, we show that bottom-up deterministic stepwise tree automata yield the most succinct representations.