Paper Automata

Patterns and instructions for creating four models.

Enter the world of animated paper engineering with these 14 whimsical projects for making automata out of cardstock. Full step-by-step instructions plus precise cut-and-assemble components suitable for papercrafters ages 12 and up.

This two-volume set of LNCS 7391 and LNCS 7392 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 39th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, ICALP 2012, held in Warwick, UK, in July 2012. The total of 123 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 432 submissions. They are organized in three tracks focussing on algorithms, complexity and games; logic, semantics, automata and theory of programming; and foundations of networked computation.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata, CIAA 2000, held in London, Ontario, Canada, in July 2000. The 26 revised full papers presented together with two invited papers and seven abstracts have passed through two rounds of selection and revision. The topics addressed from theoretical as well as application-oriented viewpoints range from automata applications in software engineering, natural language and speech recognition, and image processing to new representations and algorithms for efficient implementation of automata and related structures.

This two-volume set of LNCS 7965 and LNCS 7966 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 40th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, ICALP 2013, held in Riga, Latvia, in July 2013. The total of 124 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 422 submissions. They are organized in three tracks focussing on algorithms, complexity and games; logic, semantics, automata and theory of programming; and foundations of networked computation.

Automata and mechanical toys delight children and adults alike with the beauty of their design and the excitement of their movement. This book explains how the mechanisms work and celebrates many leading makers. Topics covered: ·History of automata & mechanical toys including the early inventors from Hero of Alexandria, through the mechanical marvels of the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries, to contemporary automata. ·Advice on how to get started; tools and materials required and techniques explained. ·Step-by-step instructions with clear colour photographs.

This book constitutes the strictly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the First International Workshop on Implementing Automata, WIA'96, held in London, Ontario, Canada, in August 1996. The volume presents 13 revised full papers together with an introduction and survey. The papers explore the use of software tools in formal language theory; various issues involved in the implementation of automata of all types are discussed. As the first book focusing on implementing automata, this collection of research papers defines the state of the art in the area. Generally speaking, the book advocates the practice of theory in computer science.

Features all the parts and instructions to build movable pirate models, along with fun facts about pirates.