Automata Implementation [electronic resource] : 4th International Workshop on Implementing Automata, WIA’99 Potsdam, Germany, July 17–19, 1999 Revised Papers / edited by Oliver Boldt, Helmut Jürgensen.

FA Minimisation Heuristics for a Class of Finite Languages -- SEA: A Symbolic Environment for Automata Theory -- Analysis of Reactive Systems with n Timers -- Animation of the Generation and Computation of Finite Automata for Learning Software -- Metric Lexical Analysis -- State Complexity of Basic Operations on Finite Languages -- Treatment of Unknown Words -- Computing Entropy Maps of Finite-Automaton-Encoded Binary Images -- Thompson Digraphs: A Characterization -- Finite Automata Encoding Geometric Figures -- Compressed Storage of Sparse Finite-State Transducers -- An Extendible Regular Expression Compiler for Finite-State Approaches in Natural Language Processing -- Multiset Processing by Means of Systems of Finite State Transducers -- A Structural Method for Output Compaction of Sequential Automata Implemented as Circuits -- An Algorithm to Verify Local Threshold Testability of Deterministic Finite Automata -- A Taxonomy of Algorithms for Constructing Minimal Acyclic Deterministic Finite Automata.