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Karlstad University
Theoretical Computer Science
The course deals with the fundamentals of automata theory, formal languages, computability and complexity theory. The course is central to the understanding of the potentials and limitations of the computer and why some problems are not computable whereas others are difficult or easy. The course comprises the follow…
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- 9 November 2026
- Karlstad
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Overview
The course deals with the fundamentals of automata theory, formal languages, computability and complexity theory. The course is central to the understanding of the potentials and limitations of the computer and why some problems are not computable whereas others are difficult or easy. The course comprises the following components: Automata theory and formal languages: -Regular languages and expressions and finite automata -Context-free languages and grammars and pushdown automata -Pumping lemma Computability theory: -Turing machines -Church-Turing thesis -Decidability of problems/languages -Halting problem -Recursion theorem (linking to computer virus) Complexity theory: -Complexity classes -Time complexity of algorithms -Cryptography
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Programming techniques (7.5 credits). Discrete mathematics (7.5 credits), or Software development methodology (7.5 credits). Equivalence assessment may be made.
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- 2026-11-09
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- Education offering e.uoh.kau.dvga17.55045.20262
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- 2026-09-23T10:37:50.445791+00:00
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- i.uoh.kau.dvga17.55045.20262
- Offering identity in the source
- e.uoh.kau.dvga17.55045.20262
- Education-form source code
- HS
- Education code in the source
- DVGA17
- Change time according to the source
- 2026-03-03T14:13:59
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