Buch, Englisch, Band 370, 132 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 230 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 370, 132 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 230 g
Reihe: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
ISBN: 978-3-540-51340-7
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Branching Programs are, besides Boolean circuits, the most important nonuniform model of computation. This volume gives a survey of the latest research in this field. It presents a branching program-based approach to complexity theory. Starting with a definition of branching programs and a review of the former research, nondeterministic branching programs are introduced and investigated, thus allowing the description of some fundamental complexity classes. The book then concentrates on the new concept of Omega-branching programs. Apart from the usual binary tests they contain features for evaluating certain elementary Boolean functions and are suited for characterizing space-bounded complexity classes. By means of these characterizations the author demonstrates the separation of some restricted complexity classes. In the appendix a number of extremely restricted graph-accessibility problems are given, which are, due to the branching program descriptions in chapters 1-3, p-projection complete in the classes under consideration.
Zielgruppe
Research
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Programmierung: Methoden und Allgemeines
- Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Logik, formale Sprachen, Automaten
- Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Mathematische Statistik
- Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Algebra Elementare Algebra
- Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung
Weitere Infos & Material
Preliminaries.- Branching programs and their computational power.- Nondeterministic branching programs.- ?=branching programs and theirs computational power.
