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This paper investigates the decidability of opacity in timed automata (TA), a property that has been proven to be undecidable in general. First, we address a theoretical gap in recent work by J. An et al. (FM 2024) by providing necessary…

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Probabilistic B\"uchi automata are a natural generalization of PFA to infinite words, but have been studied in-depth only rather recently and many interesting questions are still open. PBA are known to accept, in general, a class of…

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There are many types of automata and grammar models that have been studied in the literature, and for these models, it is common to determine whether certain problems are decidable. One problem that has been difficult to answer throughout…

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A fundamental question in logic and verification is the following: for which unary predicates $P_1, \ldots, P_k$ is the monadic second-order theory of $\langle \mathbb{N}; <, P_1, \ldots, P_k \rangle$ decidable? Equivalently, for which…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Valérie Berthé , Toghrul Karimov , Mihir Vahanwala

We investigate the decidability of model-checking logics of time, knowledge and probability, with respect to two epistemic semantics: the clock and synchronous perfect recall semantics in partially observed discrete-time Markov chains.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-11-11 Ron van der Meyden , Manas K. Patra

It is well known that for a regular tree language it is decidable whether or not it can be recognized by a deterministic top-down tree automaton (DTA). However, the computational complexity of this problem has not been studied. We show that…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Peter Leupold , Sebastian Maneth

We propose a new abstract formalism for probabilistic timed systems, Parametric Interval Probabilistic Timed Automata, based on an extension of Parametric Timed Automata and Interval Markov Chains. In this context, we consider the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Étienne André , Benoît Delahaye , Paulin Fournier

We investigate the decidability of model-checking logics of time, knowledge and probability, with respect to two epistemic semantics: the clock and synchronous perfect recall semantics in partially observed discrete-time Markov chains.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-06-29 R van der Meyden , M K Patra

Sampled semantics of timed automata is a finite approximation of their dense time behavior. While the former is closer to the actual software or hardware systems with a fixed granularity of time, the abstract character of the latter makes…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Pavel Krcal , Parosh Aziz Abdulla , Wang Yi

The \emph{Entscheidungsproblem}, or the classical decision problem, asks whether a given formula of first-order logic is satisfiable. In this work, we consider an extension of this problem to regular first-order \emph{theories}, i.e.,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Umang Mathur , David Mestel , Mahesh Viswanathan

Given a member A of the class of non-deterministic timed automata with silent transitions (eNTA), we effectively compute its timestamp: the set of all pairs (time value, action) of all observable timed traces of A, a generalization of the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Amnon Rosenmann

A central question in the theory of automata is which classes of automata can be minimized in polynomial time. We close the remaining gaps for deterministic and history-deterministic automata over infinite words by proving that…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Bader Abu Radi , Rüdiger Ehlers

The value 1 problem is a decision problem for probabilistic automata over finite words: given a probabilistic automaton A, are there words accepted by A with probability arbitrarily close to 1? This problem was proved undecidable recently.…

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Probabilistic automata are an extension of nondeterministic finite automata in which transitions are annotated with probabilities. Despite its simplicity, this model is very expressive and many of the associated algorithmic questions are…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Nathanaël Fijalkow , Cristian Riveros , James Worrell

Parametric timed automata (PTAs) are a powerful formalism to reason, simulate and formally verify critical real-time systems. After 25 years of research on PTAs, it is now well-understood that any non-trivial problem studied is undecidable…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Étienne André

We study the satisfiability problem of symbolic finite automata and decompose it into the satisfiability problem of the theory of the input characters and the monadic second-order theory of the indices of accepted words. We use our…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Rodrigo Raya

Parametric timed automata (PTA) extend timed automata with unknown constants ("parameters"), at the price of undecidability of most interesting problems. The (untimed) language preservation problem ("given a parameter valuation, can we find…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Étienne André , Shang-Wei Lin

We prove that the word problem is undecidable in functionally recursive groups, and that the order problem is undecidable in automata groups, even under the assumption that they are contracting.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-11-28 Laurent Bartholdi , Ivan Mitrofanov

Parametric timed automata (PTA) are a powerful formalism to model and reason about concurrent systems with some unknown timing delays. In this paper, we address the (untimed) language- and trace-preservation problems: given a reference…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Étienne André , Didier Lime , Nicolas Markey

We report some further developments regarding the language theory of higher-dimensional automata (HDAs). Regular languages of HDAs are sets of finite interval partially ordered multisets (pomsets) with interfaces. We show a pumping lemma…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Amazigh Amrane , Hugo Bazille , Uli Fahrenberg , Krzysztof Ziemiański