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Computational power of two stacks with restricted communication

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Authors

KARHUMÄKI Juhani KUNC Michal OKHOTIN Alexander

Year of publication 2010
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Information and Computation
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Science

Citation
web http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ic.2009.07.001
Field General mathematics
Keywords Word rewriting; String rewriting; Post systems; Multi-pushdown machines; Communication; Universality
Description Rewriting systems working on words with a center marker are considered. The derivation is done by erasing a prefix or a suffix and then adding a prefix or a suffix. This models a communication of two stacks according to a fixed protocol defined by the choice of rewriting rules. The paper systematically considers different cases of these systems and determines their expressive power. Several cases are identified where very restricted communication surprisingly yields computational universality.
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