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In this paper, we study the model-checking and parameter synthesis problems of the logic TCTL over discrete-timed automata where parameters are allowed both in the model (timed automaton) and in the property (temporal formula). Our results…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Veronique Bruyere , Jean-Francois Raskin

We follow a connection between tight determinisation and complementation and establish a complementation procedure from parity automata to nondeterministic B\"uchi automata and prove it to be tight up to an $O(n)$ factor, where $n$ is the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-12 Sven Schewe , Thomas Varghese

Propositional Projection Temporal Logic (PPTL) is a useful formalism for reasoning about period of time in hardware and software systems and can handle both sequential and parallel compositions. In this paper, based on discrete time Markov…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-11-08 Xiaoxiao Yang

In this work, we present multiple new optimizations and heuristics for the determinization of B\"uchi automata that exploit a number of semantic and structural properties, most of which may be applied together with any determinization…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Christof Löding , Anton Pirogov

The majority of existing Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) planning methods rely on the construction of a discrete product automaton, that combines a discrete abstraction of robot mobility and a B$\ddot{\text{u}}$chi automaton that captures the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Xusheng Luo , Yiannis Kantaros , Michael M. Zavlanos

We consider the problem of the verification of an LTL specification $\varphi$ on a system $S$ given some prior knowledge $K$, an LTL formula that $S$ is known to satisfy. The automata-theoretic approach to LTL model checking is implemented…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Alexandre Duret-Lutz , Denis Poitrenaud , Yann Thierry-Mieg

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

Complementation of nondeterministic B\"uchi automata (BAs) is an important problem in automata theory with numerous applications in formal verification, such as termination analysis of programs, model checking, or in decision procedures of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Vojtěch Havlena , Ondřej Lengál , Yong Li , Barbora Šmahlíková , Andrea Turrini

In this paper, an approach to estimating a nonlinear deterministic model is presented. We introduce a stochastic model with extremely small variances so that the deterministic and stochastic models are essentially indistinguishable from…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-11-13 Spyridon J. Hatjispyros , Stephen G. Walker

A labelled Markov decision process is a labelled Markov chain with nondeterminism, i.e., together with a strategy a labelled MDP induces a labelled Markov chain. The model is related to interval Markov chains. Motivated by applications of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Stefan Kiefer , Qiyi Tang

Deterministic inference is a comforting ideal in classical software: the same program on the same input should always produce the same output. As large language models move into real-world deployment, this ideal has been imported wholesale…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Tanmay Joshi , Shourya Aggarwal , Anusa Saha , Aadi Pandey , Shreyash Dhoot , Vighnesh Rai , Raxit Goswami , Aman Chadha , Vinija Jain , Amitava Das

Markov decision processes model systems subject to nondeterministic and probabilistic uncertainty. A plethora of verification techniques addresses variations of reachability properties, such as: Is there a scheduler resolving the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Lina Gerlach , Tobias Winkler , Erika Ábrahám , Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Sebastian Junges

We propose a safe exploration algorithm for deterministic Markov Decision Processes with unknown transition models. Our algorithm guarantees safety by leveraging Lipschitz-continuity to ensure that no unsafe states are visited during…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Erdem Bıyık , Jonathan Margoliash , Shahrouz Ryan Alimo , Dorsa Sadigh

The model-checking problem for probabilistic systems crucially relies on the translation of LTL to deterministic Rabin automata (DRW). Our recent Safraless translation for the LTL(F,G) fragment produces smaller automata as compared to the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-04-22 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Andreas Gaiser , Jan Křetínský

We re-investigate the problem of LTL model-checking for finite-state systems. Typical solutions, like in Spin, work on the fly, reducing the problem to Buechi emptiness. This can be done in linear time, and a variety of algorithms with this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-10-21 Andreas Gaiser , Stefan Schwoon

In this paper we review algorithms for checking diagnosability of discrete-event systems and timed automata. We point out that the diagnosability problems in both cases reduce to the emptiness problem for (timed) B\"uchi automata. Moreover,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Franck Cassez

Automata for unordered unranked trees are relevant for defining schemas and queries for data trees in Json or Xml format. While the existing notions are well-investigated concerning expressiveness, they all lack a proper notion of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Adrien Boiret , Vincent Hugot , Joachim Niehren , Ralf Treinen

Determinization of B\"uchi automata is a long-known difficult problem and after the seminal result of Safra, who developed the first asymptotically optimal construction from B\"uchi into Rabin automata, much work went into improving,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Christof Löding , Anton Pirogov

This work studies the planning problem for robotic systems under both quantifiable and unquantifiable uncertainty. The objective is to enable the robotic systems to optimally fulfill high-level tasks specified by Linear Temporal Logic (LTL)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Pian Yu , Yong Li , David Parker , Marta Kwiatkowska

We introduce a bisimulation learning algorithm for non-deterministic transition systems. We generalise bisimulation learning to systems with bounded branching and extend its applicability to model checking branching-time temporal logic,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Alessandro Abate , Mirco Giacobbe , Christian Micheletti , Yannik Schnitzer