PC grammar systems with five context-free components generate all recursively enumerable languages

TitlePC grammar systems with five context-free components generate all recursively enumerable languages
Publication TypeJournal Papers
Year of Publication2003
AuthorsCsuhaj-Varjú, E., Paun G., & Vaszil G.
Journal TitleTheoretical Computer Science
PublisherElsevier
Place PublishedAmsterdam (The Netherlands)
Volume299
Pages785 - 794
Abstract

Parallel communicating grammar systems (PC grammar systems, in short) are language generating devices consisting of several context-free grammars which work synchronously on their own sentential forms and communicate the generated strings to each other by request. These systems with eleven components are known to have the power of the Turing machines. We considerably improve this result, proving that five components suffice in order to generate any recursively enumerable language.

Keywordsdescriptional complexity, parallel communicating grammar systems, recursively enumerable languages
Issue1-3
ISSN Number0304-3975
DOI10.1016/S0304-3975(02)00852-6