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We present a novel parsing algorithm for all context-free languages, based on computing the relation between configurations and reaching transitions in a recursive transition network. Parsing complexity w.r.t. input length matches the state…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Grzegorz Herman

We prove the universality of the regular realizability problems for several classes of filters. The filters are encodings of finite relations on the set of non-negative integers in the format proposed by P. Wolf and H. Fernau. The…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Alexander Rubtsov , Michael Vyalyi

Nfer is a Runtime Verification language for the analysis of event traces that applies rules to create hierarchies of time intervals. This work examines the complexity of the evaluation and satisfiability problems for the data-free fragment…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Sean Kauffman , Kim Guldstrand Larsen , Martin Zimmermann

We study formal languages which are capable of fully expressing quantitative probabilistic reasoning and do-calculus reasoning for causal effects, from a computational complexity perspective. We focus on satisfiability problems whose…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Benito van der Zander , Markus Bläser , Maciej Liśkiewicz

We consider the class of groups whose word problem is poly-context-free; that is, an intersection of finitely many context-free languages. We show that any group which is virtually a finitely generated subgroup of a direct product of free…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-09 Tara Brough

Often, when analyzing the behaviour of systems modelled as context-free languages, we wish to know if two languages overlap. To this end, we present an effective semi-decision procedure for regular separability of context-free languages,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-20 Graeme Gange , Jorge A. Navas , Peter Schachte , Harald Sondergaard , Peter J. Stuckey

Several methods are discussed that construct a finite automaton given a context-free grammar, including both methods that lead to subsets and those that lead to supersets of the original context-free language. Some of these methods of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mark-Jan Nederhof

In this paper, we study a series of algorithmic problems related to the subsequences occurring in the strings of a given language, under the assumption that this language is succinctly represented by a grammar generating it, or an automaton…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Szilárd Zsolt Fazekas , Tore Koß , Florin Manea , Robert Mercaş , Timo Specht

Patterns are words with terminals and variables. The language of a pattern is the set of words obtained by uniformly substituting all variables with words that contain only terminals. Regular constraints restrict valid substitutions of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Dirk Nowotka , Max Wiedenhöft

Regular model checking is a well-established technique for the verification of regular transition systems (RTS): transition systems whose initial configurations and transition relation can be effectively encoded as regular languages. In…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Javier Esparza , Valentin Krasotin

The hairpin completion is an operation on formal languages that has been inspired by the hairpin formation in DNA biochemistry and by DNA computing. In this paper we investigate the hairpin completion of regular languages. It is well known…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-12 Volker Diekert , Steffen Kopecki , Victor Mitrana

We consider commutative regular and context-free grammars, or, in other words, Parikh images of regular and context-free languages. By using linear algebra and a branching analog of the classic Euler theorem, we show that, under an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Eryk Kopczynski

We investigate some basic questions about the interaction of regular and rational relations on words. The primary motivation comes from the study of logics for querying graph topology, which have recently found numerous applications. Such…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Pablo Barcelo , Diego Figueira , Leonid Libkin

We study the computational complexity of reachability, coverability and inclusion for extensions of context-free commutative grammars with integer counters and reset operations on them. Those grammars can alternatively be viewed as an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Dmitry Chistikov , Christoph Haase , Simon Halfon

We study the problem of grammar-constrained context-free language reachability in graphs, focusing on complexity and empirical performance. We present an algorithmic framework for evaluating reachability queries constrained by context-free…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Faruk Alpay , Levent Sarioglu

We introduce the problem of temporal coverability for realizability and synthesis. Namely, given a language of words that must be covered by a produced system, how to automatically produce such a system. We consider the case of coverability…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Nir Piterman

We study regular expressions that use variables, or parameters, which are interpreted as alphabet letters. We consider two classes of languages denoted by such expressions: under the possibility semantics, a word belongs to the language if…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Pablo Barceló , Leonid Libkin , Juan Reutter

We study the matching problem of regular tree languages, that is, "$\exists \sigma:\sigma(L)\subseteq R$?" where $L,R$ are regular tree languages over the union of finite ranked alphabets $\Sigma$ and $\mathcal{X}$ where $\mathcal{X}$ is an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Carlos Camino , Volker Diekert , Besik Dundua , Mircea Marin , Géraud Sénizergues

We synthesize and unify notions of regularity, both of individual sets and of collections of sets, as they appear in the convergence theory of projection methods for consistent feasibility problems. Several new characterizations of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-15 Alexander Y. Kruger , D. Russell Luke , Nguyen H. Thao

Here we study the computational complexity of the constrained synchronization problem for the class of regular commutative constraint languages. Utilizing a vector representation of regular commutative constraint languages, we give a full…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Stefan Hoffmann