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We present a characterization of the class of context-free trace languages in terms of cooperating distributed systems (CD-systems) of stateless deterministic restarting automata with window size 1 that are governed by an external pushdown store.
This work was supported by grants from the Balassi Intézet Magyar Ösztöndíj Bizottsága (MÖB) and the Deutsche Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD). The first author was also supported by the TÁMOP 4.2.1/B-09/1/KONV-2010-0007 project, which is implemented through the New Hungary Development Plan, co-financed by the European Social Fund and the European Regional Development Fund.
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Nagy, B., Otto, F. (2011). An Automata-Theoretical Characterization of Context-Free Trace Languages. In: Černá, I., et al. SOFSEM 2011: Theory and Practice of Computer Science. SOFSEM 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6543. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18381-2_34
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