TY - BOOK AU - Sudkamp,Thomas A TI - Languages and machines: an introduction to the theory of computer science SN - 0321322215 (alk. paper) AV - QA267.3 .S83 2006 U1 - 511.3 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Boston PB - Pearson/Addison-Wesley KW - Formal languages KW - Machine theory KW - Computational complexity N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 641-647) and indexes; Introduction -- Mathematical preliminaries -- Languages -- Context-free grammars -- Normal forms for context-free grammars -- Finite automata -- Properties of regular languages -- Pushdown automata and context-free languages -- Turing machines -- Turing computable functions -- The Chomsky hierarchy -- Decision problems and the Church-Turing thesis -- Undecidability -- Mu-recursive functions -- Time complexity -- P, np and cook's theorem -- Np-complete problems -- Additional complexity classes -- Parsing: an introduction -- Ll(k) grammars -- Lr(k) grammars ER -