TY - JOUR A1 - Bogue, Ted A1 - Jürgensen, Helmut A1 - Gössel, Michael T1 - Design of cover circuits for monitoring the output of a MISR Y1 - 1994 SN - 0-8186-6307-3 , 0-8186-6306-5 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bogue, Ted A1 - Jürgensen, Helmut A1 - Gössel, Michael T1 - BIST with negligible aliasing through random cover circuits Y1 - 1995 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bogue, Ted A1 - Gössel, Michael A1 - Jürgensen, Helmut A1 - Zorian, Yervant T1 - Built-in self-Test with an alternating output Y1 - 1998 SN - 0-8186-8359-7 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Brzozowski, J. A. A1 - Jürgensen, Helmut T1 - Representation of semiautomata by canonical words and equivalences N2 - We study a novel representation of semiautomata, which is motivated by the method of trace-assertion specifications of software modules. Each state of the semiautomaton is represented by an arbitrary word leading to that state, the canonical word. The transitions of the semiautomaton give rise to a right congruence, the state-equivalence, on the set of input words of the semiautomaton: two words are state-equivalent if and only if they lead to the same state. We present a simple algorithm for finding a set of generators for state-equivalence. Directly from this set of generators, we construct a confluent prefix-rewriting system which permits us to transform any word to its canonical representative. In general, the rewriting system may allow infinite derivations. To address this issue, we impose the condition of prefix-continuity on the set of canonical words. A set is prefix-continuous if, whenever a word w and a prefix u of w axe in the set, then all the prefixes of w longer than u are also in the set. Prefix-continuous sets include prefix-free and prefix-closed sets as special cases. We prove that the rewriting system is Noetherian if and only if the set of canonical words is prefix-continuous. Furthermore, if the set of canonical words is prefix- continuous, then the set of rewriting rules is irredundant. We show that each prefix-continuous canonical set corresponds to a spanning forest of the semiautomaton Y1 - 2005 SN - 0129-0541 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jürgensen, Helmut A1 - Konstantinidis, Stavros T1 - (Near-)inverses of sequences N2 - We introduce the notion of a near-inverse of a non-decreasing sequence of positive integers; near-inverses are intended to assume the role of inverses in cases when the latter cannot exist. We prove that the near-inverse of such a sequence is unique; moreover, the relation of being near-inverses of each other is symmetric, i.e. if sequence g is the near-inverse of sequence f, then f is the near-inverse of g. There is a connection, by approximations, between near- inverses of sequences and inverses of continuous strictly increasing real-valued functions which can be exploited to derive simple expressions for near-inverses Y1 - 2006 UR - http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=journal&issn=0020-7160 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/00207160500537801 SN - 0020-7160 ER -