Introduction to Probabilistic Automata

Introduction to Probabilistic Automata deals with stochastic sequential machines, Markov chains, events, languages, acceptors, and applications. The book describes mathematical models of stochastic sequential machines (SSMs), stochastic input-output relations, and their representation by SSMs. The text also investigates decision problems and minimization-of-states problems arising from concepts of equivalence and coverings for SSMs. The book presents the theory of nonhomogeneous Markov chains an