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In this paper, we study the program-point reachability problem of concurrent pushdown systems that communicate via unbounded and unordered message buffers. Our goal is to relax the common restriction that messages can only be retrieved by a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-27 Jonathan Kochems , C-H Luke Ong

We study the synthesis problem for distributed architectures with a parametric number of finite-state components. Parameterized specifications arise naturally in a synthesis setting, but thus far it was unclear how to detect realizability…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Swen Jacobs , Roderick Bloem

This paper studies the growing domain of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) problems. Motivated by scheduling problems arising in RPA, we study the parameterized complexity of the single-machine problem $1|\text{prec},r_j,d_j|*$. We focus on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Michal Dvořák , Antonín Novák , Přemysl Šůcha , Dušan Knop , Claire Hanen

Probabilistic bisimulation is a fundamental notion of process equivalence for probabilistic systems. Among others, it has important applications including formalizing the anonymity property of several communication protocols. There is a lot…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Chih-Duo Hong , Anthony W. Lin , Rupak Majumdar , Philipp Rümmer

Reconfigurable broadcast networks provide a convenient formalism for modelling and reasoning about networks of mobile agents broadcasting messages to other agents following some (evolving) communication topology. The parameterized…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-26 A. R. Balasubramanian , Nathalie Bertrand , Nicolas Markey

We study the implementability problem for an expressive class of symbolic communication protocols involving multiple participants. Our symbolic protocols describe infinite states and data values using dependent refinement predicates.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Elaine Li , Felix Stutz , Thomas Wies , Damien Zufferey

We study the linearizability monitoring problem, which asks whether a given concurrent history of a data structure is equivalent to some sequential execution of the same data structure. In general, this problem is $\textsf{NP}$-hard, even…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Lee Zheng Han , Umang Mathur

Our work is motivated by the challenges presented in preparing arrays of atoms for use in quantum simulation. The recently-developed process of loading atoms into traps results in approximately half of the traps being filled. To consolidate…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Alexandre Cooper , Stephanie Maaz , Amer E. Mouawad , Naomi Nishimura

A key way to construct complex distributed systems is through modular composition of linearizable concurrent objects. A prominent example is shared registers, which have crash-tolerant implementations on top of message-passing systems,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Hagit Attiya , Constantin Enea , Jennifer Welch

We introduce an automata-theoretic method for the verification of distributed algorithms running on ring networks. In a distributed algorithm, an arbitrary number of processes cooperate to achieve a common goal (e.g., elect a leader).…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-04-27 C. Aiswarya , Benedikt Bollig , Paul Gastin

Reasoning about hyperproperties of concurrent implementations, such as the guarantees these implementations provide to randomized client programs, has been a long-standing challenge. Standard linearizability enables the use of atomic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Yoav Ben Shimon , Ori Lahav , Sharon Shoham

We study the synthesis problem for systems with a parameterized number of processes. As in the classical case due to Church, the system selects actions depending on the program run so far, with the aim of fulfilling a given specification.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Béatrice Bérard , Benedikt Bollig , Mathieu Lehaut , Nathalie Sznajder

Efficient implementations of concurrent objects such as atomic collections are essential to modern computing. Programming such objects is error prone: in minimizing the synchronization overhead between concurrent object invocations, one…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Ahmed Bouajjani , Constantin Enea , Chao Wang

We address the problem of verifying message passing programs, defined as a set of parallel processes communicating through unbounded FIFO buffers. We introduce a bounded analysis that explores a special type of computations, called…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Ahmed Bouajjani , Constantin Enea , Kailiang Ji , Shaz Qadeer

We address the problem of statically checking control state reachability (as in possibility of assertion violations, race conditions or runtime errors) and plain reachability (as in deadlock-freedom) of phaser programs. Phasers are a modern…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Zeinab Ganjei , Ahmed Rezine , Petru Eles , Zebo Peng

This paper talk about the complexity of computation by Turing Machine. I take attention to the relation of symmetry and order structure of the data, and I think about the limitation of computation time. First, I make general problem named…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-09-24 Koji Kobayashi

In this paper, we study the problem of model-checking quantum pushdown systems from a computational complexity point of view. We arrive at the following equally important, interesting new results: We first extend the notions of the {\it…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Deren Lin , Tianrong Lin

We consider parameterized concurrent systems consisting of a finite but unknown number of components, obtained by replicating a given set of finite state automata. Components communicate by executing atomic interactions whose participants…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Marius Bozga , Javier Esparza , Radu Iosif , Joseph Sifakis , Christoph Welzel

We consider the model checking problem of infinite state systems given in the form of parameterized discrete timed networks with multiple clocks. We show that this problem is decidable with respect to specifications given by B- or…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Benjamin Aminof , Sasha Rubin , Francesco Spegni , Florian Zuleger

We study the parameterized complexity of scheduling unit-time jobs on parallel, identical machines under generalized precedence constraints for minimization of the makespan and the sum of completion times. In our setting, each job is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Christina Büsing , Maurice Draeger , Corinna Mathwieser