Delaney, A. and Taylor, J. and Thompson, Simon (2008) Spider Diagrams of Order and a Hierarchy of Star-Free Regular Languages. In: Diagrammatic Representation and Inference: 5th International Conference, Diagrams 2008, Herrsching, Germany, September 19-21, 2008, Sep 19-21, 2008, Herrsching, Germany.
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Abstract
The spider diagram logic forms a fragment of the constraint diagram logic and was designed to be primarily used as a diagrammatic software specification tool. Our interest is in using the logical basis of spider diagrams and the existing known equivalences between certain logics, formal language theory classes and some automata to inform the development of diagrammatic logics. Such developments could have many advantages, one of which would be aiding software engineers who are familiar with formal languages and automata to more intuitively understand diagrammatic logics. In this paper we consider relationships between spider diagrams of order (an extension of spider diagrams) and the star-free subset of regular languages. We extend the concept of the language of a spider diagram to encompass languages over arbitrary alphabets. Furthermore, the product of spider diagrams is introduced. This operator is the diagrammatic analogue of language concatenation. We establish that star-free languages are definable by spider diagrams of order equipped with the product operator and, based on this relationship, spider diagrams of order are as expressive as first order monadic logic of order.
| Item Type: | Conference or workshop item (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled keywords: | Spider Diagram, Order, reasoning, Hierarchy, Star-Free, Regular, Languages |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming, |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Science Technology and Medical Studies > School of Computing > Theoretical Computing Group |
| Depositing User: | Mark Wheadon |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Mar 2010 12:10 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2012 14:44 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/24010 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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