Büchi automaton
English
Etymology
Named after the Swiss mathematician Julius Richard Büchi, who invented this kind of automaton in 1962.
Noun
Büchi automaton (plural Büchi automatons or Büchi automata)
- (computing theory) A type of ω-automaton that extends a finite automaton to infinite inputs. It accepts an infinite input sequence if there exists a run of the automaton that visits (at least) one of the final states infinitely often.