The relationships among several forms of weighted finite automata over strong bimonoids

Autor: Yongming Li, Shengling Geng, Ping Li
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Information Sciences. 402:149-164
ISSN: 0020-0255
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2017.03.021
Popis: Given a strong bimonoid P, we introduce three different behaviors of a weighted finite automaton over P (called a P − valued finite automaton), named the initial object semantics, final object semantics and run semantics. We define four forms for a P − valued nondeterministic finite automaton ( P − NFA) and three forms for a P − valued deterministic finite automaton ( P − DFA). Under the above-mentioned semantics, the equivalence and differences among the four forms of P − NFAs are discussed and the equivalence among the three forms of P − DFAs are given. Moreover, we show that some equivalence depends on right distributivity or left distributivity, or even requires P to degenerate into a semiring.
Databáze: OpenAIRE