TY - BOOK AU - Maruoka, Akira TI - Concise guide to computation theory SN - 9780857295347 AV - QA 267.7 Mar PY - 2011/// CY - London PB - Springer KW - COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY KW - COMPUTABLE FUNCTIONS KW - MACHINE THEORY N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-276) and index; Part I. The theory of computation -- 1. Everything begins with computation -- 2. Preliminaries to the theory of computation -- Part II. Automata and languages -- 3. Finite automata -- 4. Context-free languages -- 5. Pushdown automata -- Part III. Computability -- 6. Turing machine -- 7. Universality of Turing machine and its limitations -- Part IV. Complexity of computation -- 8. Computational complexity based on Turing machines -- 9. Computational complexity based on Boolean circuits -- 10. NP-completeness -- Part V. Conclusions and exercise solutions --11. Solutions -- 12. Concluding remarks ER -