Rewriting systems working on words with a center marker are considered. The derivation is done by erasing a prefix or a suffix and then adding a prefix or a suffix. This can be naturally viewed as two stacks communicating with each other according to a fixed protocol. The paper systematically considers different cases of these systems and determines their expressiveness. Several cases are identified where very limited communication surprisingly yields universal computation power.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAutomata, Languages and Programming - 33rd International Colloquium, ICALP 2006, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages468-479
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)3540359079, 9783540359074
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2006
Externally publishedYes
Event33rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, ICALP 2006 - Venice, Italy
Duration: 10 Jul 200614 Jul 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4052 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference33rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, ICALP 2006
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityVenice
Period10/07/0614/07/06

    Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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