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The origin semantics for transducers was proposed in 2014, and led to various characterizations and decidability results that are in contrast with the classical semantics. In this paper we add a further decidability result for…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Sougata Bose , S. N. Krishna , Anca Muscholl , Gabriele Puppis

After an apparent hiatus of roughly 30 years, we revisit a seemingly neglected subject in the theory of (one-dimensional) cellular automata: sublinear-time computation. The model considered is that of ACAs, which are language acceptors…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Augusto Modanese

We show that the problem of checking if a given nondeterministic parity automaton simulates another given nondeterministic parity automaton is NP-hard. We then adapt the techniques used for this result to show that the problem of checking…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Keya Prakash

To study relationship between quantum finite automata and probabilistic finite automata, we introduce a notion of probabilistic reversible automata (PRA, or doubly stochastic automata). We find that there is a strong relationship between…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-06-14 Marats Golovkins , Maksim Kravtsev

Deterministic one-way time-bounded multi-counter automata are studied with respect to their ability to perform reversible computations, which means that the automata are also backward deterministic and, thus, are able to uniquely step the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Martin Kutrib , Andreas Malcher

A $d$-limited automaton is a Turing machine that may rewrite each input cell at most~$d$ times. Hibbard (1967) showed that for every $d \geq 2$ such automata recognize all context-free languages and that deterministic $d$-limited automata…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Alexander Rubtsov

Multi-letter {\it quantum finite automata} (QFAs) were a quantum variant of classical {\it one-way multi-head finite automata} (J. Hromkovi\v{c}, Acta Informatica 19 (1983) 377-384), and it has been shown that this new one-way QFAs…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-01 Daowen Qiu , Xiangfu Zou , Lvzhou Li , Paulo Mateus

Efficient pattern matching is fundamental for practical term rewrite engines. By preprocessing the given patterns into a finite deterministic automaton the matching patterns can be decided in a single traversal of the relevant parts of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Rick Erkens , Maurice Laveaux

The undecidability of basic decision problems for general FIFO machines such as reachability and unboundedness is well-known. In this paper, we provide an underapproximation for the general model by considering only runs that are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Benedikt Bollig , Alain Finkel , Amrita Suresh

The problem DFA-Intersection-Nonemptiness asks if a given number of deterministic automata accept a common word. In general, this problem is PSPACE-complete. Here, we investigate this problem for the subclasses of commutative automata and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Henning Fernau , Stefan Hoffmann , Michael Wehar

This paper deals with the design of scheduling logics for Networked Control Systems (NCSs) whose communication networks have limited capacity. We assume that only a subset of the plants can communicate with their controllers at any time…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-23 Meghna Singh , Atreyee Kundu

Determinization of fuzzy finite automata is understood here as a procedure of their conversion into equivalent crisp-deterministic fuzzy automata, which can be viewed as being deterministic with possibly infinitely many states, but with…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-17 Ivana Micić , Zorana Jančić , Jelena Ignjatović , Miroslav Ćirić

We investigate the decidability of the emptiness problem for three classes of distributed automata. These devices operate on finite directed graphs, acting as networks of identical finite-state machines that communicate in an infinite…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Antti Kuusisto , Fabian Reiter

In this work, we explore the concept of Watson-Crick conjugates, also known as $\theta$-conjugates (where $\theta$ is an antimorphic involution), of words and languages. This concept extends the classical idea of conjugates by incorporating…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Kalpana Mahalingam , Anuran Maity

We study the determinisation and unambiguisation problems of weighted automata over the rational field: Given a weighted automaton, can we determine whether there exists an equivalent deterministic, respectively unambiguous, weighted…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Ismaël Jecker , Filip Mazowiecki , David Purser

Unsupervised word translation from non-parallel inter-lingual corpora has attracted much research interest. Very recently, neural network methods trained with adversarial loss functions achieved high accuracy on this task. Despite the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Yedid Hoshen , Lior Wolf

Single-tape nondeterministic Turing machines that are allowed to replace the symbol in each tape cell only when it is scanned for the first time are also known as 1-limited automata. These devices characterize, exactly as finite automata,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Giovanni Pighizzini , Luca Prigioniero

We explore the notion of history-determinism in the context of timed automata (TA) over infinite timed words. History-deterministic (HD) automata are those in which nondeterminism can be resolved on the fly, based on the run constructed…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Sougata Bose , Thomas A. Henzinger , Karoliina Lehtinen , Sven Schewe , Patrick Totzke

Probabilistic automata are an extension of nondeterministic finite automata in which transitions are annotated with probabilities. Despite its simplicity, this model is very expressive and many of the associated algorithmic questions are…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Nathanaël Fijalkow , Cristian Riveros , James Worrell

We develop a denotational model for probabilistic and concurrent imperative programs, a class of programs with standard control flow via conditionals and while-loops, as well as probabilistic actions and parallel composition. Whereas…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Noam Zilberstein , Daniele Gorla , Alexandra Silva