Modified Branching Programs and Their Computational Power (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 370) - Softcover

Meinel, Christoph

 
9783540513407: Modified Branching Programs and Their Computational Power (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 370)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 354051340X ISBN 13: 9783540513407
Publisher: Springer, 1989

Synopsis

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.

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Publisher
Springer
Publication date
1989
Language
English
ISBN 10 
354051340X
ISBN 13 
9783540513407
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
138

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