Languages and machines : an introduction to the theory of computer science /
Thomas A. Sudkamp.
- 3rd ed.
- Boston : Pearson Addison-Wesley, c2006.
- xvii, 654 pages. : illustrations. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 641-647) and index.
Mathematical preliminaries -- Languages -- Context-free grammars -- Normal forms for context-free grammars -- Finite automata -- Properties of regular languages -- Pushdown automata and context-free languages -- Turing machines -- Turing computable functions -- The Chomsky hierarchy -- Decision problems and the church-turing thesis -- Undecidability -- Mu-recursive functions -- Time complexity -- P, NP and Cook's theorem -- NP-complete problems -- Additional complexity classes -- Parsing : an introduction -- LL(k) grammars -- LR(k) grammars.