Products of Automata

Both theoretical and practical considerations motivate the repre­ sentation of objects as certain compositions of simpler ones. In the theory of automata this observation has led to the concepts of pro­ ducts and complete systems of automata. In the general form of the products of automata all the component automata are fed back to one another. With this very broad notion of products, the realization of automata with large numbers of states by means of compositions of basic components is a highl