Technology of Scanning Substring by Turing Machine
doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-0548.2009.02.27
Supported by the Sichuan science and technology(2006J13-068)
- Received Date: 2007-09-15
- Rev Recd Date: 2008-01-20
- Publish Date: 2009-04-15
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Key words:
- moving /
- scan substring /
- storage /
- Turing machines
Abstract: In some languages, all the sentences must include or exclude some specific substrings. Sometimes, the substrings must be replaced. It is difficult for a Turing machine to accept such languages. Traditional method is based on the storage technique. In this paper, we present a new method, the scanning substring techonology. In the method, the specific substring is treated as a single unit. Multiple status transition functions of the Turing machine are combined to scan multiple characters at one time, but the read/write head only moves one unit. Through some examples, the paper shows that the Turing machine which scans multiple characters is equivalent to a Turing machine scanning one character.
Citation: | CHEN Wen-yu, CHENG Xiao-ou, SUN Shi-xin. Technology of Scanning Substring by Turing Machine[J]. Journal of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 2009, 38(2): 270-273. doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-0548.2009.02.27 |