Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, Vol 2 (1998)

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Object grammars and random generation

I. Dutour, J. M. Fédou

Abstract


This paper presents a new systematic approach for the uniform random generation of combinatorial objects. The method is based on the notion of object grammars which give recursive descriptions of objects and generalize context-freegrammars. The application of particular valuations to these grammars leads to enumeration and random generation of objects according to non algebraic parameters.

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