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Much scientific work today is directed towards understanding complexity — the complexity of numerical algorithms, of the English syntax, of living organisms or ecological systems, to cite only a few examples. The aim of this chapter is to introduce the reader to the theory of discrete information processing systems (automata) and to develop an algebraic framework within which we can talk about their complexity.
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Dal Cin, M. (1980). The Algebraic Theory of Automata. In: Kramer, P., Dal Cin, M. (eds) Groups, Systems and Many-Body Physics. Vieweg Tracts in Pure and Applied Physics, vol 4. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-06825-9_8
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