• DocumentCode
    1355954
  • Title

    A Technique for the Reduction of a Given Machine to a Minimal-State Machine

  • Author

    Ginsburg, Seymour

  • Author_Institution
    Hughes Research Labs., P.O. Box 90427, Los Angeles, Calif.
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1959
  • Firstpage
    346
  • Lastpage
    355
  • Abstract
    A technique is presented for reducing an arbitrary machine S as much as possible to a machine T which can do everything (from the input-output point of view) that S can do. Since the technique is always applicable, it is more powerful (although more cumbersome) than the well-known merging technique. Several examples are given.
  • Keywords
    Electronic equipment testing; Erbium; Formal languages; Helium; Machine intelligence; Merging;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronic Computers, IRE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0367-9950
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TEC.1959.5222696
  • Filename
    5222696