Alternating automata on data trees and XPath satisfiability

ACM Transactions on Computational Logic

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Jurdziński, Marcin ^a   Lazić, Ranko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Verification

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING AUTOMATA; DATA TREE; FINITE ALPHABET; ORDERED TREE; SATISFIABILITY; TREE AUTOMATA; UNDECIDABILITY;

AUTOMATA THEORY; COMPUTABILITY AND DECIDABILITY; PLANT EXTRACTS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 79956113932     PISSN: 15293785     EISSN: 1557945X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1929954.1929956     Document Type: Article

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