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Parikh automata extend finite automata by counters that can be tested for membership in a semilinear set, but only at the end of a run, thereby preserving many of the desirable algorithmic properties of finite automata. Here, we study the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Shibashis Guha , Ismaël Jecker , Karoliina Lehtinen , Martin Zimmermann

Constrained counting is important in domains ranging from artificial intelligence to software analysis. There are already a few approaches for counting models over various types of constraints. Recently, hashing-based approaches achieve…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Cunjing Ge , Feifei Ma , Tian Liu , Jian Zhang

A standard model that arises in several applications in sequential decision making is partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) where a decision-making agent interacts with an uncertain environment. A basic objective in such…

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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

Bernoulli factory MCMC algorithms implement accept-reject Markov chains without explicit computation of acceptance probabilities, and are used to target posterior distributions associated with intractable likelihood models. Intractable…

Computation · Statistics 2025-07-18 Timothée Stumpf-Fétizon , Flávio B. Gonçalves

In a recent paper \cite{Redei-Jing2026} the notion of conditional $p$-inaccessibility of a decision based on utility maximization was defined and examples of conditionally $p$-inaccessible decisions were given. The conditional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Zalán Gyenis , Miklós Rédei , Leszek Wroński

Vector addition systems with states (VASS), also known as Petri nets, are a popular model of concurrent systems. Many problems from many areas reduce to the reachability problem for VASS, which consists of deciding whether a target…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Roland Guttenberg , Wojciech Czerwiński , Sławomir Lasota

We give a new proof of the decidability of reachability in alternating pushdown systems, showing that it is a simple consequence of a cut-elimination theorem for some natural-deduction style inference systems. Then, we show how this result…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-10-31 Gilles Dowek , Ying Jiang

Deciding in an efficient way weak probabilistic bisimulation in the context of Probabilistic Automata is an open problem for about a decade. In this work we close this problem by proposing a procedure that checks in polynomial time the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Holger Hermanns , Andrea Turrini

The reachability problem is a central decision problem for formal verification based on vector addition systems with states (VASS), which are equivalent to Petri nets and form one of the most studied and applied models of concurrency.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Wojciech Czerwiński , Sławomir Lasota , Ranko Lazić , Jérôme Leroux , Filip Mazowiecki

In this work, we perform safety analysis of linear dynamical systems with uncertainties. Instead of computing a conservative overapproximation of the reachable set, our approach involves computing a statistical approximate reachable set. As…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-17 Bineet Ghosh , Parasara Sridhar Duggirala

In this paper we propose a stochastic model predictive control (MPC) algorithm for linear discrete-time systems affected by possibly unbounded additive disturbances and subject to probabilistic constraints. Constraints are treated in…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Lukas Hewing , Melanie N. Zeilinger

The recent years have seen remarkable progress in establishing the complexity of the reachability problem for vector addition systems with states (VASS), equivalently known as Petri nets. Existing work primarily considers the case in which…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Andrei Draghici , Christoph Haase , Andrew Ryzhikov

We present ProbReach, a tool for verifying probabilistic reachability for stochastic hybrid systems, i.e., computing the probability that the system reaches an unsafe region of the state space. In particular, ProbReach will compute an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-06 Fedor Shmarov , Paolo Zuliani

This paper studies the robustness of observability of a linear time-invariant system under sensor failures from a computational perspective. To be precise, the problem of determining the minimum number of sensors whose removal can destroy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Yuan Zhang , Yuanqing Xia , Kun Liu

Accept-reject based Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms have traditionally utilised acceptance probabilities that can be explicitly written as a function of the ratio of the target density at the two contested points. This feature is…

Computation · Statistics 2021-04-26 Dootika Vats , Flávio Gonçalves , Krzysztof Łatuszyński , Gareth O. Roberts

This paper over-approximates the reachable sets of a continuous-time uncertain system using the sensitivity of its trajectories with respect to initial conditions and uncertain parameters. We first prove the equivalence between an existing…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Pierre-Jean Meyer , Samuel Coogan , Murat Arcak

One-Counter nets (OCN) consist of a nondeterministic finite control and a single integer counter that cannot be fully tested for zero. They form a natural subclass of both One-Counter Automata, which allow zero-tests and Petri Nets/VASS,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Piotr Hofman , Patrick Totzke

We consider the model checking problem for probabilistic pushdown automata (pPDA) and properties expressible in various probabilistic logics. We start with properties that can be formulated as instances of a generalized random walk problem.…

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