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In this paper, we consider the satisfiability problem for string logic with equations, regular membership and Presburger constraints over length functions. The difficulty comes from multiple occurrences of string variables making…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Quang Loc Le

In this paper, we define the notion of {\em probabilistic $\omega$-pushdown automaton} and study its model-checking problem against the logic of $\omega$-probabilistic computational tree logic ($\omega$-PCTL) and its bounded version from a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Deren Lin , Tianrong Lin

We analyse the complexity of the satisfiability problem ssmSAT for State Space Models (SSM), which asks whether an input sequence can lead the model to an accepting configuration. We find that ssmSAT is undecidable in general, reflecting…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Eric Alsmann , Martin Lange

We study the computational complexity of a robust version of the problem of testing two univariate C-finite functions for eventual inequality at large times. Specifically, working in the bit-model of real computation, we consider the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Eike Neumann

Leadership games provide a powerful paradigm to model many real-world settings. Most literature focuses on games with a single follower who acts optimistically, breaking ties in favour of the leader. Unfortunately, for real-world…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Giuseppe De Nittis , Alberto Marchesi , Nicola Gatti

We establish that the subgame perfect equilibrium (SPE) threshold problem for mean-payoff games is NP-complete. While the SPE threshold problem was recently shown to be decidable (in doubly exponential time) and NP-hard, its exact worst…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Léonard Brice , Jean-François Raskin , Marie van den Bogaard

Maslov's class $\overline{\text{K}}$ is an expressive fragment of First-Order Logic known to have decidable satisfiability problem, whose exact complexity, however, has not been established so far. We show that $\overline{\text{K}}$ has the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Oskar Fiuk , Emanuel Kieronski , Vincent Michielini

Using the notion of visibility representations, our paper establishes a new property of instances of the Nondeterministic Constraint Logic (NCL) problem (a PSPACE-complete problem that is very convenient to prove the PSPACE-hardness of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Michael C. Chavrimootoo

The intractability of any problem and the randomness of its solutions have an obvious intuitive connection. However, the challenge till now has been that there is no practical way to firmly establish if the solution to a problem is actually…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Arun U

Adding propositional quantification to the modal logics K, T or S4 is known to lead to undecidability but CTL with propositional quantification under the tree semantics (tQCTL) admits a non-elementary Tower-complete satisfiability problem.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Bartosz Bednarczyk , Stéphane Demri

The probabilistic satisfiability of a logical expression is a fundamental concept known as the partition function in statistical physics and field theory, an evaluation of a related graph's Tutte polynomial in mathematics, and the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Stephen Eubank , Madhurima Nath , Yihui Ren , Abhijin Adiga

We prove the computational intractability of rotating and placing $n$ square tiles into a $1 \times n$ array such that adjacent tiles are compatible--either equal edge colors, as in edge-matching puzzles, or matching tab/pocket shapes, as…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-01-03 Jeffrey Bosboom , Erik D. Demaine , Martin L. Demaine , Adam Hesterberg , Pasin Manurangsi , Anak Yodpinyanee

DPLL and resolution are two popular methods for solving the problem of propositional satisfiability. Rather than algorithms, they are families of algorithms, as their behavior depend on some choices they face during execution: DPLL depends…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-07-25 Paolo Liberatore

We numerically study quantum adiabatic algorithm for the propositional satisfiability. A new class of previously unknown hard instances is identified among random problems. We numerically find that the running time for such instances grows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Marko Znidaric

Consensus problems for strings and sequences appear in numerous application contexts, ranging from bioinformatics over data mining to machine learning. Closing some gaps in the literature, we show that several fundamental problems in this…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Laurent Bulteau , Vincent Froese , Rolf Niedermeier

We consider two-player partial-observation stochastic games on finite-state graphs where player 1 has partial observation and player 2 has perfect observation. The winning condition we study are \omega-regular conditions specified as parity…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-15 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Laurent Doyen , Sumit Nain , Moshe Y. Vardi

Weighted timed games are played by two players on a timed automaton equipped with weights: one player wants to minimise the accumulated weight while reaching a target, while the other has an opposite objective. Used in a reactive synthesis…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Damien Busatto-Gaston , Benjamin Monmege , Pierre-Alain Reynier

We show that the decision problem for the basic system of interpretability logic IL is PSPACE-complete. For this purpose we present an algorithm which uses polynomial space with respect to the complexity of a given formula. The existence of…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Luka Mikec , Fedor Pakhomov , Mladen Vuković

We robustify PCTL and PCTL*, the most important specification languages for probabilistic systems, and show that robustness does not increase the complexity of their model-checking problems.

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Martin Zimmermann

Alternating-time Temporal Logic (ATL*) is a central logic for multiagent systems. Its extension to the imperfect information setting (ATL*i ) is well known to have an undecidable model-checking problem when agents have perfect recall.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Raphaël Berthon , Bastien Maubert , Aniello Murano