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This paper investigates the decidability of opacity in timed automata (TA), a property that has been proven to be undecidable in general. First, we address a theoretical gap in recent work by J. An et al. (FM 2024) by providing necessary…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-02 Weilin Deng , Daowen Qiu , Jingkai Yang

Deterministic timed automata are strictly less expressive than their non-deterministic counterparts, which are again less expressive than those with silent transitions. As a consequence, timed automata are in general non-determinizable.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-17 Florian Lorber , Amnon Rosenmann , Dejan Nickovic , Bernhard Aichernig

Alternating timed automata on infinite words are considered. The main result is a characterization of acceptance conditions for which the emptiness problem for these automata is decidable. This result implies new decidability results for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Pawel Parys , Igor Walukiewicz

We study timed systems in which some timing features are unknown parameters. Parametric timed automata (PTAs) are a classical formalism for such systems but for which most interesting problems are undecidable. Notably, the parametric…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Étienne André , Didier Lime , Olivier H. Roux

We propose a new extension of higher-order pushdown automata, which allows to use an infinite alphabet. The new automata recognize languages of data words (instead of normal words), which beside each its letter from a finite alphabet have a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-10 Paweł Parys

The paper is focused on temporal logics for the description of the behaviour of real-time pushdown reactive systems. The paper is motivated to bridge tractable logics specialized for expressing separately dense-time real-time properties and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Laura Bozzelli , Aniello Murano , Adriano Peron

Automata expressiveness is an essential feature in understanding which of the formalisms available should be chosen for modelling a particular problem. Probabilistic and stochastic automata are suitable for modelling systems exhibiting…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Valentin Bura , Tim French , Mark Reynolds

The expanding cellular automata (XCA) variant of cellular automata is investigated and characterized from a complexity-theoretical standpoint. An XCA is a one-dimensional cellular automaton which can dynamically create new cells between…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Augusto Modanese

We study explorability, a measure of nondeterminism in pushdown automata, which generalises history-determinism. An automaton is k-explorable if, while reading the input, it suffices to follow k concurrent runs, built step-by-step based…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Ayaan Bedi , Karoliina Lehtinen

Ensuring the correctness of critical real-time systems, involving concurrent behaviours and timing requirements, is crucial. Timed automata extend finite-state automata with clocks, compared in guards and invariants with integer constants.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Étienne André , Didier Lime , Olivier H. Roux

There are languages A such that there is a Pushdown Automata (PDA) that recognizes A which is much smaller than any Deterministic Pushdown Automata (DPDA) that recognizes A. There are languages A such that there is a Linear Bounded Automata…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-17 Richard Beigel , William Gasarch

Visibly pushdown automata are input-driven pushdown automata that recognize some non-regular context-free languages while preserving the nice closure and decidability properties of finite automata. Visibly pushdown automata with multiple…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Benedikt Bollig

The simulation of deterministic pushdown automata defined over a one-letter alphabet by finite state automata is investigated from a descriptional complexity point of view. We show that each unary deterministic pushdown automaton of size s…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-11 Giovanni Pighizzini

We compare pushdown automata (PDAs for short) against other representations. First, we show that there is a family of PDAs over a unary alphabet with $n$ states and $p \geq 2n + 4$ stack symbols that accepts one single long word for which…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Pierre Ganty , Elena Gutiérrez

Probabilistic timed automata are classical timed automata extended with discrete probability distributions over edges. We introduce clock-dependent probabilistic timed automata, a variant of probabilistic timed automata in which transition…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Jeremy Sproston

We consider decision problems for deterministic pushdown automata over a unary alphabet (udpda, for short). Udpda are a simple computation model that accept exactly the unary regular languages, but can be exponentially more succinct than…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Dmitry Chistikov , Rupak Majumdar

We revisit a fundamental result in real-time verification, namely that the binary reachability relation between configurations of a given timed automaton is definable in linear arithmetic over the integers and reals. In this paper we give a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Karin Quaas , Mahsa Shirmohammadi , James Worrell

Timed automata (TA) is used for modeling systems with timing aspects. A TA extends a finite automaton with a set of real valued variables called clocks, that measure the time and constraints over the clocks guard the transitions. A…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Ebru Aydin Gol

The verification of systems combining hard timing constraints with concurrency is challenging. This challenge becomes even harder when some timing constants are missing or unknown. Parametric timed formalisms, such as parametric timed…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Étienne André , Didier Lime , Mathias Ramparison

The paper is focused on temporal logics for the description of the behaviour of real-time pushdown reactive systems. The paper is motivated to bridge tractable logics specialized for expressing separately dense-time real-time properties and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Laura Bozzelli , Aniello Murano , Adriano Peron