RT Journal Article T1 Low Disruption Transformations on Cyclic Automata A1 Martín Reyes, Gema María A1 Vico-Vela, Francisco José A1 Dassow, Jürgen K1 Autómatas AB We extend the edit operators of substitution, deletion, and insertion of a symbol over aword by introducing two new operators (partial copy and partial elimination) inspired by biologicalgene duplication. We define a disruption measure for an operator over a word and prove that whereasthe traditional edit operators are disruptive, partial copy and partial elimination are non-disruptive.Moreover, we show that the application of only edit operators does not generate (with low disruption)all the words over a binary alphabet, but this can indeed be done by combining partial copy andpartial elimination with the substitution operator. PB IOS Press YR 2010 FD 2010 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10630/6704 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10630/6704 LA eng NO Martin GM, Vico FJ, Dassow J & Truthe, B (2010) Low disruption transformations on cyclic automata. Fundamenta Informaticae, 104(1-2): 93-110. DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga RD 20 ene 2026