Foreword

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.—James Bryce

 

In the history of science and technology, if any branch has ever changed the prospective face of the world, it is nothing else but Computer Science and Engineering known as CSE microscopically in this gradually becoming short and nano society(!) The subject of automata theory is an important component of CSE, among others. It is said that it is “the study of abstract machine and the problems which they are able to solve.” Thus, it is by right a primary and core part of CSE.

 

Many books on automata theory are available in the market and all these books have obvious attractions as well as drawbacks. Any attempt to author a book with authority to please ...

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