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We show the surprising result that the cutpoint isolation problem is decidable for Probabilistic Finite Automata (PFA) where input words are taken from a letter-bounded context-free language. A context-free language $\mathcal{L}$ is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Paul C. Bell , Pavel Semukhin

We study the expressiveness and succinctness of history-deterministic pushdown automata (HD-PDA) over finite words, that is, pushdown automata whose nondeterminism can be resolved based on the run constructed so far, but independently of…

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We identify a decidable synthesis problem for a class of programs of unbounded size with conditionals and iteration that work over infinite data domains. The programs in our class use uninterpreted functions and relations, and abide by a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Paul Krogmeier , Umang Mathur , Adithya Murali , P. Madhusudan , Mahesh Viswanathan

In this paper we extend the predicate logic introduced in [Beauquier et al. 2002] in order to deal with Semi-Markov Processes. We prove that with respect to qualitative probabilistic properties, model checking is decidable for this logic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ruggero Lanotte , Daniele Beauquier

We introduce a model of one-way language acceptors (a variant of a checking stack automaton) and show the following decidability properties: (1) The deterministic version has a decidable membership problem but has an undecidable emptiness…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Oscar H. Ibarra , Ian McQuillan

We study the bisimilarity problem for probabilistic pushdown automata (pPDA) and subclasses thereof. Our definition of pPDA allows both probabilistic and non-deterministic branching, generalising the classical notion of pushdown automata…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-09 Vojtech Forejt , Petr Jancar , Stefan Kiefer , James Worrell

Implementing correct distributed systems is an error-prone task. Runtime Verification (RV) offers a lightweight formal method to improve reliability by monitoring system executions against correctness properties. However, applying RV in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Armando Castañeda , Gilde Valeria Rodríguez

A saturation algorithm for collapsible pushdown systems was published in ICALP 2012. This work introduced a class of stack automata used to recognised regular sets of collapsible pushdown configurations. It was shown that these automata…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Christopher Broadbent , Arnaud Carayol , Matthew Hague , Olivier Serre

Efficient implementations of atomic objects such as concurrent stacks and queues are especially susceptible to programming errors, and necessitate automatic verification. Unfortunately their correctness criteria - linearizability with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Ahmed Bouajjani , Michael Emmi , Constantin Enea , Jad Hamza

Regular nested word languages (a.k.a. visibly pushdown languages) strictly extend regular word languages, while preserving their main closure and decidability properties. Previous works have shown that considering languages of 2-nested…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Séverine Fratani , Guillaume Maurras , Pierre-Alain Reynier

Cellular automata are one-dimensional arrays of interconnected interacting finite automata. We investigate one of the weakest classes, the real-time one-way cellular automata, and impose an additional restriction on their inter-cell…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-30 Martin Kutrib , Andreas Malcher

We present a differentiable stack data structure that simultaneously and tractably encodes an exponential number of stack configurations, based on Lang's algorithm for simulating nondeterministic pushdown automata. We call the combination…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Brian DuSell , David Chiang

Over the last 25 years, a lot of work has been done on seeking for decidable non-regular extensions of Propositional Dynamic Logic (PDL). Only recently, an expressive extension of PDL, allowing visibly pushdown automata (VPAs) as a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-07-18 Stefan Göller , Dirk Nowotka

We consider the decidability of state-to-state reachability in linear time-invariant control systems over discrete time. We analyse this problem with respect to the allowable control sets, which in general are assumed to be defined by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-19 Nathanaël Fijalkow , Joël Ouaknine , Amaury Pouly , João Sousa-Pinto , James Worrell

Counters that hold natural numbers are ubiquitous in modeling and verifying software systems; for example, they model dynamic creation and use of resources in concurrent programs. Unfortunately, such discrete counters often lead to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-27 A. R. Balasubramanian , Matthew Hague , Rupak Majumdar , Ramanathan S. Thinniyam , Georg Zetzsche

In [1], we introduced the weakly synchronizing languages for probabilistic automata. In this report, we show that the emptiness problem of weakly synchronizing languages for probabilistic automata is undecidable. This implies that the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-06 Laurent Doyen , Thierry Massart , Mahsa Shirmohammadi

Freeze LTL is a temporal logic with registers that is suitable for specifying properties of data words. In this paper we study the model checking problem for Freeze LTL on one-counter automata. This problem is known to be undecidable in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Antonia Lechner , Richard Mayr , Joël Ouaknine , Amaury Pouly , James Worrell

Interrupt Timed Automata (ITA) form a subclass of stopwatch automata where reachability and some variants of timed model checking are decidable even in presence of parameters. They are well suited to model and analyze real-time operating…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-20 Béatrice Bérard , Serge Haddad , Claudine Picaronny , Mohab Safey El Din , Mathieu Sassolas

A class of languages C is perfect if it is closed under Boolean operations and the emptiness problem is decidable. Perfect language classes are the basis for the automata-theoretic approach to model checking: a system is correct if the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-28 Javier Esparza , Pierre Ganty , Rupak Majumdar

We study expression learning problems with syntactic restrictions and introduce the class of finite-aspect checkable languages to characterize symbolic languages that admit decidable learning. The semantics of such languages can be defined…

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