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We show that the determinization problem for min-plus (tropical) weighted automata is decidable, thus resolving this long-standing open problem. In doing so, we develop a new toolbox for analyzing and reasoning about the run-structure of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Shaull Almagor , Guy Arbel , Sarai Sheinvald

This paper studies the complexity of operations on finite automata and the complexity of their decision problems when the alphabet is unary. Let $n$ denote the maximum of the number of states of the input finite automata considered in the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Wojciech Czerwiński , Maciej Dębski , Tomasz Gogasz , Gordon Hoi , Sanjay Jain , Michał Skrzypczak , Frank Stephan , Christopher Tan

We study a variant of the classical membership problem in automata theory, which consists of deciding whether a given input word is accepted by a given automaton. We do so under a different perspective, that is, we consider a dynamic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Alejandro Grez , Filip Mazowiecki , Michał Pilipczuk , Gabriele Puppis , Cristian Riveros

We exhibit the construction of a deterministic automaton that, given k > 0, recognizes the (regular) language of k-differentiable words. Our approach follows a scheme of Crochemore et al. based on minimal forbidden words. We extend this…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Jean-Marc Fédou , Gabriele Fici

It is undecidable whether the language recognized by a probabilistic finite automaton is empty. Several other undecidability results, in particular regarding problems about matrix products, are based on this important theorem. We present…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Günter Rote

We study a generalisation of B\"uchi-Landweber games to the timed setting. The winning condition is specified by a non-deterministic timed automaton, and one of the players can elapse time. We perform a systematic study of synthesis…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Sławomir Lasota , Mathieu Lehaut , Julie Parreaux , Radosław Piórkowski

Altenbernd, Thomas and W\"ohrle have considered in [ATW02] acceptance of languages of infinite two-dimensional words (infinite pictures) by finite tiling systems, with the usual acceptance conditions, such as the B\"uchi and Muller ones,…

Logic · Mathematics 2011-08-03 Olivier Finkel

We revisit a fundamental result in real-time verification, namely that the binary reachability relation between configurations of a given timed automaton is definable in linear arithmetic over the integers and reals. In this paper we give a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Karin Quaas , Mahsa Shirmohammadi , James Worrell

The following problem is shown undecidable: given regular languages L,K of finite trees, decide if there exists a deterministic tree-walking automaton which accepts all trees in L and rejects all trees in K. The proof uses a technique of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Mikołaj Bojańczyk

An automaton is history-deterministic if its nondeterminism can be resolved on the fly, only using the prefix of the word read so far. This mild form of nondeterminism has attracted particular attention for its applications in synthesis…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Udi Boker , Thomas A. Henzinger , Karoliina Lehtinen , Keya Prakash

We study the determinisation and unambiguisation problems of weighted automata over the rational field: Given a weighted automaton, can we determine whether there exists an equivalent deterministic, respectively unambiguous, weighted…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Ismaël Jecker , Filip Mazowiecki , David Purser

We consider the temporal logic with since and until modalities. This temporal logic is expressively equivalent over the class of ordinals to first-order logic by Kamp's theorem. We show that it has a PSPACE-complete satisfiability problem…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Stephane Demri , Alexander Rabinovich

We are lifting classical problems from single instances to regular sets of instances. The task of finding a positive instance of the combinatorial problem $P$ in a potentially infinite given regular set is equivalent to the so called…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Petra Wolf

Monitoring is an important part of the verification toolbox, in particular in situations where exhaustive verification using, e.g., model-checking is infeasible. The goal of online monitoring is to determine the satisfaction or violation of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Thomas M. Grosen , Sean Kauffman , Kim G. Larsen , Martin Zimmermann

Probabilistic timed automata are an extension of timed automata with discrete probability distributions. We consider model-checking algorithms for the subclasses of probabilistic timed automata which have one or two clocks. Firstly, we show…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Marcin Jurdzinski , Francois Laroussinie , Jeremy Sproston

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

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Nathanaël Fijalkow , Hugo Gimbert , Edon Kelmendi , Youssouf Oualhadj

In this work, we study properties of deterministic finite-state automata with timers, a subclass of timed automata proposed by Vaandrager et al. as a candidate for an efficiently learnable timed model. We first study the complexity of the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Véronique Bruyère , Guillermo A. Pérez , Gaëtan Staquet , Frits W. Vaandrager

We show that many classical decision problems about 1-counter omega-languages, context free omega-languages, or infinitary rational relations, are $\Pi_2^1$-complete, hence located at the second level of the analytical hierarchy, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-08-04 Olivier Finkel

Finite-state tree automata are a well studied formalism for representing term languages. This paper studies the problem of determining the regularity of the set of instances of a finite set of terms with variables, where each variable is…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2009-11-20 Omer Giménez , Guillem Godoy , Sebastian Maneth

We introduce the model of communicating timed automata (CTA) that extends the classical models of finite-state processes communicating through FIFO perfect channels and timed automata, in the sense that the finite-state processes are…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Parosh Aziz Abdulla , Mohamed Faouzi Atig , S. Krishna