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Kybernetika 28(2):155-166, 1992.

On the Syntactic Complexity of Parallel Communicating Grammar Systems

Gheorghe Paun


Abstract:

We compare the complexity of generating a language by a context-free grammar or by a parallel communicating grammar system ($PCGS$), in the sense of Gruska's measures $Var, Prod,\ Symb$. Then we define a specific measure for $PCGS, Com$, dealing with the number of communication symbols appearing in a derivation. The results are the expected ones: the $PCGS$ are definitely more efficient than context-free grammars (the assertion will receive a precise meaning in Section 2), the parameter $Com$ introduces an infinite hierarchy of languages, is incomparable with $Var, Prod, Symb$, and cannot be algorithmically computed.


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@article{kyb:1992:2:155-166,

author = {P\v{a}un, Gheorghe},

title = {On the Syntactic Complexity of Parallel Communicating Grammar Systems},

journal = {Kybernetika},

volume = {28},

year = {1992},

number = {2},

pages = {155-166}

publisher = {{\'U}TIA, AV {\v C}R, Prague },

}


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