Nelma Moreira's Annual Report

Nelma Moreira's Annual Report

Year: 

2015

Brief description of the research activities: 

- With G.Pighizzini and R.Reis studied the complexity of two language operations that can be expressed by suitable combining complement with
concatenation and star.

- With E. Maia and R. Reis studied  and developed new  conversion methods from regular expressions to equivalent non-deterministic finite automata

- With S. Broda, A. Machiavelo and R. Reis extended the partial derivative automaton to the shuffle operation and study the avarage state complexity within the framework of analytic combinatorics

- With M. Ramos and J.C. B. Almeida development of a mechanical formalization of basic concepts of context-free grammars and languages within the interactive theorem prover Coq

- With R. Bastos, S. Broda, A. Machiavelo and R. Reis extended derivative based methods to intersection and complement

- With S. Konstantinidis and R. Reis extended FAdo capabilities by implementing methods to manipulate transducers and we go one level higher than existing formal language systems and implement methods to manipulate objects representing classes of independent languages (widely known as code properties).

Talks / Seminars / Courses : 

Communications in international conferences

Title:
"Partial derivative automaton for regular expressions with shuffle
Name of the event:
DCFS 2015
Speakers
Nelma Moreira
Talk:
Contributed talk
Date:
25.06.2015 to 27.02.2016
Host institution:
University of Waterloo
Country:
Canada
Location / City:
Waterloo
Website:
Speakers
Nelma Moreira

Organization of scientific meetings: 

Role: 

co-Chair of Program and organizing committees

Name of the event: 

NCMA 2014 6th Non-Classical Models of Automata and Applications

start and end date: 

August 31, 2015 to September 1, 2015

Host institution: 

University of Porto

Country: 

Portugal

Location / City: 

Porto

Role: 

Member of Program Committee:

Name of the event: 

DCFS 2015

start and end date: 

June 25, 2015 to June 27, 2015

Host institution: 

University of Waterloo

Country: 

Canada

Location / City: 

Waterloo

Organization of regular seminars: 

CMUP General Seminars:

- Analysis of proof search through typed lambda-calculi, Luis Pinto, Universidade do Minho 29/05/2015

- New bounds on Klarner's constant, Gill Barequet 20/11/2015

 

 

 

 

Computational applications: 

FAdo -tools for formal languages manipulation V.1.2

KATEXP -   KAT decision procedures in Python

CFGCoq - Formalization of Context-free language Theory in Coq 

 

Work visits: 

  1. University of Charles, Prague, Czech Republic: visiting Frantis\v ek Mraz (29/01-1/02).
  2.  Labri, Bordeaux, France: visiting Synvain Lombardy and  Jacques Sakarovitch (16-19/02). Project Vaucanson-r