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Deciding the amalgamation property for a given class of finite structures is an important subroutine in classifying countable finitely homogeneous structures. We study the computational complexity of the amalgamation decision problem for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jakub Rydval

Often, when analyzing the behaviour of systems modelled as context-free languages, we wish to know if two languages overlap. To this end, we present an effective semi-decision procedure for regular separability of context-free languages,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-20 Graeme Gange , Jorge A. Navas , Peter Schachte , Harald Sondergaard , Peter J. Stuckey

[Context and motivation] Incompleteness in natural-language requirements is a challenging problem. [Question/problem] A common technique for detecting incompleteness in requirements is checking the requirements against external sources.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Dipeeka Luitel , Shabnam Hassani , Mehrdad Sabetzadeh

In the present work, we tackle the regular language indexing problem by first studying the hierarchy of $p$-sortable languages: regular languages accepted by automata of width $p$. We show that the hierarchy is strict and does not collapse,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Nicola Cotumaccio , Giovanna D'Agostino , Alberto Policriti , Nicola Prezza

We study the problem of fitting ontologies and constraints to positive and negative examples that take the form of a finite relational structure. As ontology and constraint languages, we consider the description logics $\mathcal{E\mkern-2mu…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Simon Hosemann , Jean Christoph Jung , Carsten Lutz , Sebastian Rudolph

We characterize the words that can be mapped to arbitrarily high powers by injective morphisms. For all other words, we prove a linear upper bound for the highest power that they can be mapped to, and this bound is optimal up to a constant…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Aleksi Saarela

We initiate the study of finite characterizations and exact learnability of modal languages. A finite characterization of a modal formula w.r.t. a set of formulas is a finite set of finite models (labelled either positive or negative) which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Balder ten Cate , Raoul Koudijs

For a class L of languages let PDL[L] be an extension of Propositional Dynamic Logic which allows programs to be in a language of L rather than just to be regular. If L contains a non-regular language, PDL[L] can express non-regular…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-06-08 Markus Latte

One of the long-standing goals in optimisation and constraint programming is to describe a problem in natural language and automatically obtain an executable, efficient model. Large language models appear to bring this vision closer,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Alessio Pellegrino , Jacopo Mauro

The problem of identifying a probabilistic context free grammar has two aspects: the first is determining the grammar's topology (the rules of the grammar) and the second is estimating probabilistic weights for each rule. Given the hardness…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Dana Fisman , Dolav Nitay , Michal Ziv-Ukelson

A filtration of a formal language L by a sequence s maps L to the set of words formed by taking the letters of words of L indexed only by s. We consider the languages resulting from filtering by all arithmetic progressions. If L is regular,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-02 Hamoon Mousavi , Jeffrey Shallit

We study the notion of sparseness for regular languages over finite trees and infinite words. A language of trees is called sparse if the relative number of $n$-node trees in the language tends to zero, and a language of infinite words is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Kord Eickmeyer , Georg Schindling

Some classical graph problems such as finding minimal spanning tree, shortest path or maximal flow can be done efficiently. We describe slight variations of such problems which are shown to be NP-complete. Our proofs use straightforward…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Per Alexandersson

This article provide new approach to solve P vs NP problem by using cardinality of bases function. About NP-Complete problems, we can divide to infinite disjunction of P-Complete problems. These P-Complete problems are independent of each…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-01-28 Koji Kobayashi

By operations on models we show how to relate completeness with respect to permissive-nominal models to completeness with respect to nominal models with finite support. Models with finite support are a special case of permissive-nominal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-05-28 Murdoch J. Gabbay

A generalization of numeration system in which the set N of the natural numbers is recognizable by finite automata can be obtained by describing a lexicographically ordered infinite regular language. Here we show that if P belonging to Q[x]…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Michel Rigo

Context-free languages can be characterized in several ways. This article studies projective linearisations of languages of simple dependency trees, i.e., dependency trees in which a node can govern at most one node with a given syntactic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Carles Cardó

To Rogers (1994) we owe the insight that monadic second order predicate logic with multiple successors (MSO) is well suited in many respects as a realistic formal base for syntactic theorizing. However, the agreeable formal properties of…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Uwe Moennich

The Int_reg-problem of a combinatorial problem P asks, given a nondeterministic automaton M as input, whether the language L(M) accepted by M contains any positive instance of the problem P. We consider the Int_reg-problem for a number of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Petra Wolf , Henning Fernau

In this paper we consider the following question in the spirit of Ramsey theory: Given $x\in A^\omega,$ where $A$ is a finite non-empty set, does there exist a finite coloring of the non-empty factors of $x$ with the property that no…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-26 Aldo de Luca , Elena V. Pribavkina , Luca Q. Zamboni