1st Edition

Handbook of Finite State Based Models and Applications

Edited By Jiacun Wang Copyright 2013
    410 Pages 209 B/W Illustrations
    by Chapman & Hall

    410 Pages 209 B/W Illustrations
    by Chapman & Hall

    Applicable to any problem that requires a finite number of solutions, finite state-based models (also called finite state machines or finite state automata) have found wide use in various areas of computer science and engineering. Handbook of Finite State Based Models and Applications provides a complete collection of introductory materials on finite state theories, algorithms, and the latest domain applications. For beginners, the book is a handy reference for quickly looking up model details. For more experienced researchers, it is suitable as a source of in-depth study in this area.

    The book first introduces the fundamentals of automata theory, including regular expressions, as well as widely used automata, such as transducers, tree automata, quantum automata, and timed automata. It then presents algorithms for the minimization and incremental construction of finite automata and describes Esterel, an automata-based synchronous programming language for embedded system software development.

    Moving on to applications, the book explores regular path queries on graph-structured data, timed automata in model checking security protocols, pattern matching, compiler design, and XML processing. It also covers other finite state-based modeling approaches and applications, including Petri nets, statecharts, temporal logic, and UML state machine diagrams.

    Finite Automata, Rana Barua and Kishan Chand Gupta

    Large-Scale Regular Expression Matching on FPGA, Yi-Hua E. Yang and Viktor K. Prasanna

    Finite State Transducers, Javier Baliosian and Dina Wonsever

    Tree Automata, Olivier Gauwin

    Timed Automata, Jun Sun, Yang Liu, and Jin Song Dong

    Quantum Finite Automata, Daowen Qiu, Lvzhou Li, Paulo Mateus, and Jozef Gruska

    Finite Automata Minimization, Marco Almeida, Nelma Moreira, and Rogério Reis

    Incremental Construction of Finite-State Automata, Jan Daciuk

    Esterel and the Semantics of Causality, Mohammad Reza Mousavi

    Regular Path Queries on Graph-Structured Data, Alex Thomo and S. Venkatesh

    Applying Timed Automata to Model Checking of Security Protocols, Mirosław Kurkowski and Wojciech Penczek

    Optimal Adaptive Pattern-Matching Using Finite State Automata, Nadia Nedjah and Luiza de Macedo Mourelle

    Finite State Automata in Compilers, Yang Zhao

    Finite State Models for XML Processing, Murali Mani

    Petri Nets, Jiacun Wang

    Statecharts, Hanlin Lu and Sheng Yu

    Model Checking, Zhenhua Duan and Cong Tian

    System Modeling with UML State Machines, Omar El Ariss and Dianxiang Xu

    Index

    Biography

    Jiacun Wang is an associate professor and the chair of the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey. Dr. Wang is a senior member of IEEE and an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C. His research interests include software engineering, discrete event systems, formal methods, wireless networking, and real-time distributed systems.