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CS 311 Computational Structures

October 2019 Class Syllabus

TEXT: Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation


by John E. Hopcroft, Rajeev Motwani, and Jeffrey D. Ullman.
REFERENCE: Introduction to the Theory of Computation, by Michael Sipser.
Discrete Structures, Logic and Computability by James L. Hein.

CLASS SCHEDULE: ..

INSTRUCTOR: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dien Dinh


Computational Linguistics Center, US-VNU-HCM
C44, Building C, 227 Nguyen Van Cu Str., Dist. 5, HCMC, VN.
Email: ddien@fit.hcmus.edu.vn
Course link:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2tvcxh34iewhk84/AABWnR2rVF3MS4cg2iVwv6
1wa?dl=0

TEACHING ASSISTANT: Nguyen Hoang Long Email: long.nguyen2731@gmail.com


Faculty of Information Technology, HCMUS
The TAs will help students to do exercises and experiments in the lab.

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Introduces the foundations of computing: regular languages and finite automata; context-free
languages and pushdown automata; Turing machines and equivalent models of computation;
computability; introduction to complexity.

PREREQUISITES: CS 251 (Logical Structures).

LABORATORY:
The Prolog language is used for programming experiments.

FINAL GRADE DETERMINATION:


Homework & Assignments 25%
Presentation & Slides 25%
Final Exam (written) 50% (closed book, allow 1 double-sided A4-paper note)
Bonus unlimited

Weekly Schedule

Session Description Notes


Week 1 Introduction

Week 2 Finite Automata


- Intro to DFAs
- Formal definition of DFA
- Acceptance in a DFA

Week 3 NFAs Assignment#1


- NFA as 5-tuple
- Running and accepting in an NFA
- Regular operations on NFAs
- Equivalence of NFAs and DFAs
- Preview of the subset construction
- A-closure
Week 4 Regular Expression
- Regular Expressions
- The Algebra of Regular Expressions
- Transforming RE to FA
- Transforming FA to RE

Week 5 Regular Languages Assignment#2


- Regular Grammars
- Pumping Lemma

Week 6 Properties of Regular Languages


- Building NFAs fm grammars Student
- Building grammars fm NFAs presentation#1,2,3

Week 7 Context-Free Languages/Grammar Student


- CF grammar presentation#4,5,6
- Definitions for PDA Assignment#3
- Non-equivalence of DFA and NFA
Week 8 Context-Free Language Topics & PDA Student
- Converting PDA into CFGs presentation#7,8,9
- Converting CFG into PDAs
- Chomsky Normal Form

Week 9 Turing Machines Student


- Definition of a Turing Machine presentation#10,11,12
- Turing Machine with Output
- Alternative Definitions
- A Universal Turing Machine
- Equivalence of Computational Models
- A Simple Programming Language

Week 10 Computability Student


- Effective Enumerations presentation#13,14,15
- The Halting Problem Assignment#4
- The Total Problem
- Other Problems:
A Hierarchy of Languages
- NP-Complete problems
- P = NP?
Final Exam 120 minutes

Presentation:
- Number of group members: 4
- Duration: 30 mins + 10 mins QA
- Written report (slide) is to be submitted on the presentation time

Application: Practical applications of computational structures.

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