@Article{ dm96, author = "Volker Diekert and Anca Muscholl", title = "A note on {M}{\'e}tivier's construction of asynchronous automata for triangulated graphs", journal = "Fundamenta Informaticae", year = "1996", volume = "25", pages = "241--246", note = "Special issue on {F}ormal {L}anguage {T}heory", abstract = "In the special case of acyclic dependence graphs Y.~M{\'e}tivier exhibited a surprisingly elegant solution \cite{met87}, providing in a natural way deterministic asynchronous automata for recognizable languages. The drawback is the fact that acyclicity is a strong restriction on concurrency alphabets. In fact, even the special case of complete dependence, i.e.\ the free monoid, is not included. We show here that for a larger class of graphs --the {\em triangulated} graphs-- the main idea of M{\'e}tivier's construction still applies. We are thus able to generalize this simple construction to triangulated graphs. From a practical point of view, this means that by adding sufficient dependence, i.e.\ triangulating in a dependence alphabet, we can obtain simple deterministic asynchronous automata for every recognizable trace languages, by loosing some concurrency, only.", doi = "10.3233/FI-1996-253402" }