Towards Alternating Automata for Graph Languages

H.J. Sander Bruggink, Mathias Hülsbusch, Barbara König
2012 Electronic Communications of the EASST  
In this paper we introduce alternating automata for languages of arrows of an arbitrary category, and as an instantiation thereof alternating automata for graph languages. We study some of their closure properties and compare them, with respect to expressiveness, to other methods for describing graph languages. We show, by providing several examples, that many graph properties (of graphs of bounded path width) can be naturally expressed as alternating automata.
doi:10.14279/tuj.eceasst.47.734 dblp:journals/eceasst/BrugginkHK12 fatcat:7hhw4se3eje3dacuuzeaq2lzwa