Publications [#237073] of John H. Reif

Journal articles or Book chapters PUBLISHED

1. Peterson, GL; Reif, JH, MULTIPLE-PERSON ALTERNATION., Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science Proceedings (January, 1979), pp. 348-363 [pdf], [doi]
   (last updated on 2026/01/15)

   Abstract:
   The alternation machines of A. K. Chandra et al. , and the private alternation machines of J. H. Reif are generalized to model multiple person (team) games of incomplete information. The resulting classes of machines are ″multiple person alternation machines″ . The characterization of certain time and space bounded versions of these machines demonstrates interesting relationships between ordinary time and space hierarchies. The results are applied to relative succintness and power questions of finite state machines and to complexity questions of parallel finite state machines. Other machine variants, including private alternating pushdown store automata and Markovian alternation machines, are discussed.