Computation Theory is the study of the fundamental principles underly-ing computation and the analysis of algorithms. It’s often split into three parts: automata, computability, and complexity.
The Theory of Computation is the study of the formal foundations of computer science and technology. This dynamic and rapidly expanding eld straddles mathematics and computer …
In 1936, Alan Turing, one of the fathers of modern computer science, de-veloped the Turing Machine, a theoretical model of computation which is widely believed to be just as powerful as …
The definition of computation as an execution sequence of a computing machine under the direction of an algorithm that halts is clearly too limited. We need to rethink computation to …
The purpose of these notes is to introduce some of the basic notions of the theory of computation, including concepts from formal languages and automata theory, the theory of computability, …
The notions of input and output are the most basic concepts of computation: computation is – for the moment – the process of deriving the desired output from a given input(s).
ELEMENTS OF THE THEORY OF COMPUTATION Harry R. Lewis, and Christos H. Papadimitriou Prentice Hall, 2nd Edition