Deterministic automaton

In computer science, a deterministic automaton is a concept of automata theory in which the outcome of a transition from one state to another is determined by the input.[1]

A common deterministic automaton is a deterministic finite automaton (DFA)) which is a finite state machine where for each pair of state and input symbol there is one and only one transition to a next state. DFAs recognize the set of regular languages and no other languages.[2]

A standard way to build a deterministic finite automaton from a nondeterministic finite automaton is the powerset construction.[3]

References

  1. Anderson (2006) p.41
  2. Anderson (2006) p.52
  3. Anderson (2006) p.44


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