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In this paper, we give a deterministic pushdown transducer and a normal sequence of digits compressed by it. This solves positively a question left open in a previous paper by V. Becher, P. A. Heiber and the first author.

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Olivier Carton , Sylvain Perifel

Matrix evolution equations occur in many applications, such as dynamical Lyapunov/Sylvester systems or Riccati equations in optimization and stochastic control, machine learning or data assimilation. In many such problems, the dominant…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Nayef Shkeir , Tobias Grafke

Parametric timed automata (PTA) are a powerful formalism to model and reason about concurrent systems with some unknown timing delays. In this paper, we address the (untimed) language- and trace-preservation problems: given a reference…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Étienne André , Didier Lime , Nicolas Markey

Parametric timed automata extend the standard timed automata with the possibility to use parameters in the clock guards. In general, if the parameters are real-valued, the problem of language emptiness of such automata is undecidable even…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Nikola Beneš , Peter Bezděk , Kim G. Larsen , Jiří Srba

Suitable extensions of the monadic second-order theory of k successors have been proposed in the literature to capture the notion of time granularity. In this paper, we provide the monadic second-order theories of downward unbounded layered…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 M. Franceschet , A. Montanari

Timed automata and register automata are well-known models of computation over timed and data words respectively. The former has clocks that allow to test the lapse of time between two events, whilst the latter includes registers that can…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Diego Figueira , Piotr Hofman , Sławomir Lasota

Timed automata (TAs) are an extension of finite automata that can measure and react to the passage of time, providing the ability to handle real-time constraints using clocks. In 2009, Franck Cassez showed that the timed opacity problem,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Étienne André , Sarah Dépernet , Engel Lefaucheux

We consider a classical scheduling problem on $m$ identical machines. For an arbitrary constant $q>1$, the aim is to assign jobs to machines such that $\sum_{i=1}^m C_i^q$ is minimized, where $C_i$ is the total processing time of jobs…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Lin Chen , Liangde Tao , José Verschae

We consider a general class of decision problems concerning formal languages, called ``(one-dimensional) unboundedness predicates'', for automata that feature reversal-bounded counters (RBCA). We show that each problem in this class reduces…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Pascal Baumann , Flavio D'Alessandro , Moses Ganardi , Oscar Ibarra , Ian McQuillan , Lia Schütze , Georg Zetzsche

In 1978 Sakoda and Sipser raised the question of the cost, in terms of size of representations, of the transformation of two-way and one-way nondeterministic automata into equivalent two-way deterministic automata. Despite all the attempts,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Bruno Guillon , Giovanni Pighizzini , Luca Prigioniero , Daniel Průša

This paper investigates the time-bounded version of the reachability problem for hybrid automata. This problem asks whether a given hybrid automaton can reach a given target location within T time units, where T is a constant rational…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-04-29 Thomas Brihaye , Laurent Doyen , Gilles Geeraerts , Joël Ouaknine , Jean-François Raskin , James Worrell

We present an efficient algorithm to reduce the size of nondeterministic tree automata, while retaining their language. It is based on new transition pruning techniques, and quotienting of the state space w.r.t. suitable equivalences. It…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-07 Ricardo Almeida , Lukáš Holík , Richard Mayr

We address the problem of model checking context-free specifications for probabilistic pushdown automata, which has relevant applications in the verification of recursive probabilistic programs. Operator Precedence Languages (OPLs) are an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Francesco Pontiggia , Ezio Bartocci , Michele Chiari

Recently, an infinite hierarchy of languages accepted by stateless deterministic pushdown automata has been established based on the number of pushdown symbols. However, the witness language for the n-th level of the hierarchy is over an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-27 Tomáš Masopust

We introduce Parametric Linear Dynamic Logic (PLDL), which extends Linear Dynamic Logic (LDL) by temporal operators equipped with parameters that bound their scope. LDL was proposed as an extension of Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) that is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Peter Faymonville , Martin Zimmermann

In (Csuhaj-Varju et. al. 2000) Parallel Communicating Systems of Pushdown Automata (PCPA) were introduced and shown to be able to simulate nondeterministic one-way multi-head pushdown automata in returning mode, even if communication is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-07 Holger Petersen

This paper introduces new notions of asymptotic proofs, PT(polynomial-time)-extensions, PTM(polynomial-time Turing machine)-omega-consistency, etc. on formal theories of arithmetic including PA (Peano Arithmetic). This paper shows that P…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Tatsuaki Okamoto , Ryo Kashima

Extending the lambda-calculus with a construct for sharing, such as let expressions, enables a special representation of terms: iterated applications are decomposed by introducing sharing points in between any two of them, reducing to the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Beniamino Accattoli , Andrea Condoluci , Giulio Guerrieri , Claudio Sacerdoti Coen

We address the problem of verifying timed properties of Markovian models of large populations of interacting agents, modelled as finite state automata. In particular, we focus on time-bounded properties of (random) individual agents…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Luca Bortolussi , Roberta Lanciani

Higher-dimensional automata (HDA) are a formalism to faithfully model the behaviour of concurrent systems. For ordinary automata, there is a correspondence between regular expressions, regular languages and finite automata, which provides a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Henning Basold , Thomas Baronner , Márton Hablicsek