Büchi automaton
nounEtymology Named after the Swiss mathematician Julius Richard Büchi, who invented this kind of automaton in 1962.
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Computing, Computing theory, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences 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.