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Record Nr.

UNISA996465722903316

Autore

Meinel Christoph

Titolo

Modified Branching Programs and Their Computational Power [[electronic resource] /] / by Christoph Meinel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1989

ISBN

3-540-46198-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 1989.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VI, 132 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 0302-9743 ; ; 370

Disciplina

519.2

Soggetti

Probabilities

Computers

Algorithms

Combinatorics

Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes

Computation by Abstract Devices

Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries -- Branching programs and their computational power -- Nondeterministic branching programs -- ?=branching programs and theirs computational power.

Sommario/riassunto

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.