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Two lower bounds on distributive generation of languages

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The lower bounds on communication complexity measures of language generation by Parallel Communicating Grammar Systems (PCGS) are investigated. The first result shows that there exists a language that can be generated by some dag-PCGS (PCGS with communication structures realizable by directed acyclic graphs) consisting of 3 grammars, but by no PCGS with tree communication structure. The second result shows that dag-PCGS have their communication complexity of language generation either constant or linear.

These authors were partially supported by MSV SR grant and by EC Cooperative Action IC 1000: project ALTEC.

The work of this author has been supported by Project 11281 of the Academy of Finland.

The part of the work of this author has been done during the author's stay at the Dept. of Mathematics & Informatics of the University of Paderborn.

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Igor Prívara Branislav Rovan Peter Ruzička

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Hromkovič, J., Kari, J., Kari, L., Pardubská, D. (1994). Two lower bounds on distributive generation of languages. In: Prívara, I., Rovan, B., Ruzička, P. (eds) Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 1994. MFCS 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 841. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58338-6_89

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