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The halting problem for Turing machines is decidable on a set of asymptotic probability one. Specifically, there is a set B of Turing machine programs such that (i) B has asymptotic probability one, so that as the number of states n…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joel David Hamkins , Alexei Miasnikov

Consider a complete communication network of $n$ nodes, where the nodes receive a common clock pulse. We study the synchronous $c$-counting problem: given any starting state and up to $f$ faulty nodes with arbitrary behaviour, the task is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Christoph Lenzen , Joel Rybicki , Jukka Suomela

In this paper we consider the coupled task scheduling problem with exact delay times on a single machine with the objective of minimizing the total completion time of the jobs. We provide constant-factor approximation algorithms for several…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-03 David Fischer , Péter Györgyi

We introduce a parallel machine scheduling problem in which the processing times of jobs are not given in advance but are determined by a system of linear constraints. The objective is to minimize the makespan, i.e., the maximum job…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-30 Kameng Nip , Zhenbo Wang , Zizhuo Wang

The constrained synchronization problem (CSP) asks for a synchronizing word of a given input automaton contained in a regular set of constraints. It could be viewed as a special case of synchronization of a discrete event system under…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Stefan Hoffmann

In this paper we study the classical single machine scheduling problem where the objective is to minimize the total weight of tardy jobs. Our analysis focuses on the case where one or more of three natural parameters is either constant or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Danny Hermelin , Shlomo Karhi , Mike Pinedo , Dvir Shabtay

In this note, we consider the problem of choosing which nodes of a linear dynamical system should be actuated so that the state transfer from the system's initial condition to a given final state is possible. Assuming a standard complexity…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Ali Jadbabaie , Alexander Olshevsky , George J. Pappas , Vasileios Tzoumas

The task of implementing a supervisory controller is non-trivial, even though different theories exist that allow automatic synthesis of these controllers in the form of automata. One of the reasons for this discord is due to the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-10-28 Harsh Beohar , Pieter Cuijpers

We study the problem of non-preemptively scheduling $n$ jobs, each job $j$ with a release time $t_j$, a deadline $d_j$, and a processing time $p_j$, on $m$ parallel identical machines. Cieliebak et al. (2004) considered the two constraints…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-25 René van Bevern , Rolf Niedermeier , Ondřej Suchý

Limit-average automata are weighted automata on infinite words that use average to aggregate the weights seen in infinite runs. We study approximate learning problems for limit-average automata in two settings: passive and active. In the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Jakub Michaliszyn , Jan Otop

We present a strongly exponential lower bound that applies both to the subset synchronization threshold for binary deterministic automata and to the careful synchronization threshold for binary partial automata. In the later form, the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Vojtěch Vorel

For a first-order theory $T$, the Constraint Satisfaction Problem of $T$ is the computational problem of deciding whether a given conjunction of atomic formulas is satisfiable in some model of $T$. In this article we develop sufficient…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Manuel Bodirsky , Johannes Greiner

We study the problem of synchronization of automata with random inputs. We present a series of automata such that the expected number of steps until synchronization is exponential in the number of states. At the same time, we show that the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Vladimir V. Gusev

Zielonka's theorem shows that each regular set of Mazurkiewicz traces can be implemented as a system of synchronized processes with a distributed control structure called asynchronous automaton. This paper gives a polynomial algorithm for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Nicolas Baudru , Rémi Morin

In this paper, we consider partially observable timed automata endowed with a single clock. A time interval is associated with each transition specifying at which clock values it may occur. In addition, a resetting condition associated to a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Chao Gao , Dimitri Lefebvre , Carla Seatzu , Zhiwu Li , Alessandro Giua

In complexity theory, there exists a famous unsolved problem whether NP can be P or not. In this paper, we discuss this aspect in SAT (satisfiability) problem, and it is shown that the SAT can be solved in plynomial time by means of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Masanori Ohya , Natsuki Masuda

We study a connection between synchronizing automata and its set $M$ of minimal reset words, i.e., such that no proper factor is a reset word. We first show that any synchronizing automaton having the set of minimal reset words whose set of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Emanuele Rodaro

An automaton is said to be synchronizing if there is a word in the transitions which sends all states of the automaton to a single state. Research on this topic has been driven by the \v{C}ern\'y conjecture, one of the oldest and most…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-31 João Araújo , Peter J. Cameron , Benjamin Steinberg

This paper investigates the autonomous synchronization problem for discrete-time heterogeneous multiagent systems. The synchronization problem is transformed into the asymptotic decoupling problem of stable modes in a class of discrete-time…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Wei Hu , Quanyi Liang

In this paper, we address the finite time synchronization of a network of dynamical systems with time-varying interactions modeled using temporal networks. We synchronize a few nodes initially using external control inputs. These nodes are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-15 Aandrew Baggio S , Rachel Kalpana Kalaimani