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This uniquely authoritative and comprehensive handbook is the first to cover the vast field of formal languages, as well as its traditional and most recent applications to such diverse areas as linguistics, developmental biology, computer graphics, cryptology, molecular genetics, and programming languages. No other work comes even close to the scope of this one. The editors are extremely well-known theoretical computer scientists, and each individual topic is presented by the leading authorities in the particular field. The maturity of the field makes it possible to include a historical perspective in many presentations. The work is divided into three volumes, which may be purchased as a set.

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of Volume 1.- 1. Formal Languages: an Introduction and a Synopsis.- 2. Regular Languages.- 3. Context-Free Languages and Pushdown Automata.- 4. Aspects of Classical Language Theory.- 5. L Systems.- 6. Combinatorics of Words.- 7. Morphisms.- 8. Codes.- 9. Semirings and Formal Power Series.- 10. Syntactic Semigroups.- 11. Regularity and Finiteness Conditions.- 12. Families Generated by Grammars and L Systems.

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