SKLCS seminar on "Conventional Suggestions to the Automata-Theoretic Community"

Title: Conventional Suggestions to the Automata-Theoretic Community

Abstract: For better communications, when presenting existing works or new findings, researchers follow established conventions, including preferred choices among alternative definitions, names, etc. Conventions may change and evolve over time. In this talk, I will suggest and justify three conventional changes to the theory of automata on which the automata-theoretic community heavily relies. The first and the second changes are about the initial setting and the computations of an automaton, while the third is about a complementation construction.

Sven Schewe, Bio:

Dr. Yih-Kuen Tsay is a professor in the Department of Information Management at National Taiwan University. Dr. Tsay received his B.S. degree from National Taiwan University in 1984 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1989 and 1993, all in Computer Science. In 1995, after two years as a postdoctoral research fellow at Uppsala University in Sweden, Dr. Tsay returned to Taiwan to join his current department. He was the department chair from 2013 to 2017.

Dr. Tsay is generally interested in rigorous methods and practically usable tools that help ensure correctness, safety, and security of computer software. In terms of specific areas, his research interests include formal verification, temporal logic, automata theory, and software security. Further information may be found on his personal homepage.