Van Zijl, LynetteRaitt, Lesley2009-03-092009-03-092008-06-052009-03-09Van Zijl, L & Raitt, L 2008, 'Random Generation of Unary Finite Automata over the Domain of the Regular Languages', in Colloquium and Festschrift at the occasion of the 60th birthday of Derrick Kourie (Computer Science), Windy Brow, South Afica, 28 June 2008. [http://www.cs.up.ac.za/cs/sgruner/Festschrift/]http://hdl.handle.net/2263/9191The Post-Proceedings of this Festschrift will be formally published in The South African Computer Journal number 41.We show that the standard methods for the random generation of finite automata are inadequate if considered over the domain of the regular languages, for small n. We then present a consolidated, practical method for the random generation of unary finite automata over the domain of the regular languages.enLynette van ZijlFinite AutomataRandom Number GenerationSequential machine theoryProgramming languages (Electronic computers)Article