Theory of Computation (MAE745)

Undergraduate Courses Outlines - Department of Mathematics

General

School	School of Science
Academic Unit	Department of Mathematics
Level of Studies	Undergraduate
Course Code	MAE745
Semester	7
Course Title	Theory of Computation
Independent Teaching Activities	Lectures (Weekly Teaching Hours: 3, Credits: 6)
Course Type	Special Background
Prerequisite Courses	-
Language of Instruction and Examinations	Greek
Is the Course Offered to Erasmus Students	Yes (in English)
Course Website (URL)	See eCourse, the Learning Management System maintained by the University of Ioannina.

Learning Outcomes

Learning outcomes

The goal of this course is the deeper understanding of Automata Theory and Languages. During the course a detailed examination of the following topics are done: Introductory concepts of Automata , Computability and Complexity as well as basic definitions, basic theorems and inductive proofs Finite State Machines and Languages, Finite Automata (Deterministic FA, Nondeterministic FA, FA with Epsilon-Transitions) and their applications, Regular Expressions and Languages, derivation trees. Removing Nondeterminism . Equivalence NFA and NFA with ε-moves. Minimization of DFA, Pumping Lemma FA and Grammars. Grammars of Chomsky Hierarchy. Regular Sets (RS). Properties of Regular Languages. RS and FA. Finding a correspondence Regular Expression of a FA. Abilities and disabilities of FA. Context-Free Grammars and Languages, Pushdown Automata (Deterministic PDA, Acceptance by Final State, Acceptance by Empty Stack) , Properties of Context-Free Languages. Correspondence PDA and Context-Free Languages. Introduction of Turing Machines. Standard TM, useful techniques for TM constructions. Modification of TM. TM as procedure. Unsolvability. The Church-Turing Thesis. The Universal TM. The Halting Problem for TM. Computational Complexity. NP-complete problems. Upon completion of the course, the students will be able to: understand theoretical documentation of mathematical problems solve exercises track further applications which are related to Finite Automata, Pushdown Automata, and Turing Machines as well as to Unsolvability , to Computational Complexity and to NP-complete problems.

General Competences

Handle new problems Decision making Implementation- Consolidation

Syllabus

• Introduction and related concepts.
• Finite automata and regular expressions, regular languages, closure properties, pumping lemma, algorithms.
• Determinism, non-determinism.
• Pushdown automata and context-free grammars, context-free languages, closure properties, pumping lemma, algorithms.
• Chomsky normal form.
• Turing machines, equivalence of different models.
• Recursive and recursively enumerable languages.
• Church-Turing thesis.
• Undecidability, the halting problem, Post’s correspondence problem.
• Classes P and NP.

Teaching and Learning Methods - Evaluation

Delivery	Face to face
Use of Information and Communications Technology	Projector and interactive board during lectures. Course website maintenance. Announcements and posting of teaching material (lecture slides and notes, programs). Assessment marks via the ecourse platform.
Teaching Methods	Activity Semester Workload Lectures 39 Self study 78 Exercises 33 Course total 150
Student Performance Evaluation	Final test

Attached Bibliography

See the official Eudoxus site or the local repository of Eudoxus lists per academic year, which is maintained by the Department of Mathematics. Books and other resources, not provided by Eudoxus:

• [11776]: Στοιχεία θεωρίας υπολογισμού, Lewis Harry R.,Παπαδημητρίου Χρίστος Χ.
• [257]: ΕΙΣΑΓΩΓΗ ΣΤΗ ΘΕΩΡΙΑ ΥΠΟΛΟΓΙΣΜΟΥ, SIPSER MICHAEL.