{"author":[{"first_name":"Thomas A","orcid":"0000−0002−2985−7724","full_name":"Thomas Henzinger","id":"40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Henzinger"}],"status":"public","_id":"4511","publist_id":"218","extern":1,"date_created":"2018-12-11T12:09:14Z","year":"2007","type":"conference","citation":{"mla":"Henzinger, Thomas A. Quantitative Generalizations of Languages. Vol. 4588, Springer, 2007, pp. 20–22, doi:10.1007/978-3-540-73208-2_2.","ama":"Henzinger TA. Quantitative generalizations of languages. In: Vol 4588. Springer; 2007:20-22. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-73208-2_2","ieee":"T. A. Henzinger, “Quantitative generalizations of languages,” presented at the DLT: Developments in Language Theory, 2007, vol. 4588, pp. 20–22.","short":"T.A. Henzinger, in:, Springer, 2007, pp. 20–22.","apa":"Henzinger, T. A. (2007). Quantitative generalizations of languages (Vol. 4588, pp. 20–22). Presented at the DLT: Developments in Language Theory, Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73208-2_2","chicago":"Henzinger, Thomas A. “Quantitative Generalizations of Languages,” 4588:20–22. Springer, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73208-2_2.","ista":"Henzinger TA. 2007. Quantitative generalizations of languages. DLT: Developments in Language Theory, LNCS, vol. 4588, 20–22."},"conference":{"name":"DLT: Developments in Language Theory"},"quality_controlled":0,"date_updated":"2021-01-12T07:59:21Z","volume":4588,"day":"21","publisher":"Springer","alternative_title":["LNCS"],"intvolume":" 4588","doi":"10.1007/978-3-540-73208-2_2","acknowledgement":"This research was supported in part by the Swiss National Science Foundation and by the NSF grant CCR-0225610.","abstract":[{"text":"In the traditional view, a language is a set of words, i.e., a function from words to boolean values. We call this view “qualitative,” because each word either belongs to or does not belong to a language. Let Σ be an alphabet, and let us consider infinite words over Σ. Formally, a qualitative language over Σ is a function A: B . There are many applications of qualitative languages. For example, qualitative languages are used to specify the legal behaviors of systems, and zero-sum objectives of games played on graphs. In the former case, each behavior of a system is either legal or illegal; in the latter case, each outcome of a game is either winning or losing. For defining languages, it is convenient to use finite acceptors (or generators). In particular, qualitative languages are often defined using finite-state machines (so-called ω-automata) whose transitions are labeled by letters from Σ. For example, the states of an ω-automaton may represent states of a system, and the transition labels may represent atomic observables of a behavior. There is a rich and well-studied theory of finite-state acceptors of qualitative languages, namely, the theory of theω-regular languages.","lang":"eng"}],"date_published":"2007-06-21T00:00:00Z","page":"20 - 22","month":"06","publication_status":"published","title":"Quantitative generalizations of languages"}