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History-deterministic automata are those in which nondeterministic choices can be correctly resolved stepwise: there is a strategy to select a continuation of a run given the next input letter so that if the overall input word admits some…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Soumyajit Paul , David Purser , Sven Schewe , Qiyi Tang , Patrick Totzke , Di-De Yen

In this paper we address the decision problem for a fragment of set theory with restricted quantification which extends the language studied in [4] with pair related quantifiers and constructs, in view of possible applications in the field…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-10-10 Domenico Cantone , Cristiano Longo

We study a generalisation of B\"uchi-Landweber games to the timed setting. The winning condition is specified by a non-deterministic timed automaton with epsilon transitions and only Player I can elapse time. We show that for fixed number…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Lorenzo Clemente , Sławomir Lasota , Radosław Piórkowski

The languages of infinite timed words accepted by timed automata are traditionally defined using Buchi-like conditions. These acceptance conditions focus on the set of locations visited infinitely often along a run, but completely ignore…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-12 Nathalie Bertrand , Patricia Bouyer , Thomas Brihaye , Amelie Stainer

While the complexity of translating future linear temporal logic (LTL) into automata on infinite words is well-understood, the size increase involved in turning automata back to LTL is not. In particular, there is no known elementary bound…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Udi Boker , Karoliina Lehtinen , Salomon Sickert

Updatable timed automata (UTA) are extensions of classic timed automata that allow special updates to clock variables, like x:= x - 1, x := y + 2, etc., on transitions. Reachability for UTA is undecidable in general. Various subclasses with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Paul Gastin , Sayan Mukherjee , B Srivathsan

In this paper, we introduce a restriction of Timed Automata (TA), called non-resetting test Timed Automata (nrtTA). An nrtTA does not allow to test and reset the same clock on the same transition. The model has the same expressive power of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Marcello M. Bersani , Matteo Rossi , Pierluigi San Pietro

Timed automata (TAs) are an extension of finite automata that can measure and react to the passage of time, providing the ability to handle real-time constraints using clocks. In 2009, Franck Cassez showed that the timed opacity problem,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Étienne André , Sarah Dépernet , Engel Lefaucheux

The complexity and decidability of various decision problems involving the shuffle operation are studied. The following three problems are all shown to be $NP$-complete: given a nondeterministic finite automaton (NFA) $M$, and two words $u$…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Joey Eremondi , Oscar H. Ibarra , Ian McQuillan

We study reachability games on recursive timed automata (RTA) that generalize Alur-Dill timed automata with recursive procedure invocation mechanism similar to recursive state machines. It is known that deciding the winner in reachability…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Shankara Narayanan Krishna , Lakshmi Manasa , Ashutosh Trivedi

We consider the computability and complexity of decision questions for Probabilistic Finite Automata (PFA) with sub-exponential ambiguity. We show that the emptiness problem for strict and non-strict cut-points of polynomially ambiguous…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Paul C. Bell

We present an algorithm for active learning of deterministic timed automata with multiple clocks. The algorithm is within the querying framework of Angluin's $L^*$ algorithm and follows the idea proposed in existing work on the active…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Yu Teng , Miaomiao Zhang , Jie An

The determinisation problem for min-plus (tropical) weighted automata was recently shown to be decidable. However, the proof is purely existential, relying on several non-constructive arguments. Our contribution in this work is twofold:…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Shaull Almagor , Guy Arbel , Sarai Sheinvald

Regular synchronization languages can be used to define rational relations of finite words, and to characterize subclasses of rational relations, like automatic or recognizable relations. We provide a systematic study of the decidability of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Christof Löding , Sarah Winter

The emptiness and containment problems for probabilistic automata are natural quantitative generalisations of the classical language emptiness and inclusion problems for Boolean automata. It is well known that both problems are undecidable.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Laure Daviaud , Marcin Jurdziński , Ranko Lazić , Filip Mazowiecki , Guillermo A. Pérez , James Worrell

Probabilistic timed automata are classical timed automata extended with discrete probability distributions over edges. We introduce clock-dependent probabilistic timed automata, a variant of probabilistic timed automata in which transition…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Jeremy Sproston

We study the following decision problem: is the language recognized by a quantum finite automaton empty or non-empty? We prove that this problem is decidable or undecidable depending on whether recognition is defined by strict or non-strict…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vincent D. Blondel , Emmanuel Jeandel , Pascal Koiran , Natacha Portier

We consider probabilistic automata on infinite words with acceptance defined by parity conditions. We consider three qualitative decision problems: (i) the positive decision problem asks whether there is a word that is accepted with…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-12 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Mathieu Tracol

Clock-dependent probabilistic timed automata extend classical timed automata with discrete probabilistic choice, where the probabilities are allowed to depend on the exact values of the clocks. Previous work has shown that the quantitative…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Jeremy Sproston

Interrupt Timed Automata (ITA) is an expressive timed model, introduced to take into account interruptions, according to levels. Due to this feature, this formalism is incomparable with Timed Automata. However several decidability results…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Béatrice Bérard , Serge Haddad , Aleksandra Jovanović , Didier Lime