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The traditional abstract domain framework for imperative programs suffers from several shortcomings; in particular it does not allow precise symbolic abstractions. To solve these problems, we propose a new abstract interpretation framework,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Matthieu Lemerre , Sébastien Bardin

We define a new subclass of nondeterministic finite automata for prefix-closed languages called Flanked Finite Automata (FFA). We show that this class enjoys good complexity properties while preserving the succinctness of nondeterministic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-23 Florent Avellaneda , Silvano Dal Zilio , Jean-Baptiste Raclet

"Quantitative languages are extension of boolean languages that assign to each word a real number. Mean-payoff automata are finite automata with numerical weights on transitions that assign to each infinite path the long-run average of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-05-20 Yaron Velner

A formal-linguistic approach for solving an entertaining task is made in this paper. The well-known task of the Hanoi towers is discussed in relation to some concepts of discrete mathematics. A context-free grammar which generate an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-24 Krasimir Yordzhev

We show that some results from the theory of group automata and monoid automata still hold for more general classes of monoids and models. Extending previous work for finite automata over commutative groups, we demonstrate a context-free…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Özlem Salehi , Flavio D'Alessandro , A. C. Cem Say

We present an algorithm for regular expression parsing and submatch extraction based on tagged deterministic finite automata. The algorithm works with different disambiguation policies. We give detailed pseudocode for the algorithm,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Angelo Borsotti , Ulya Trafimovich

Analogous to regular string and tree languages, regular languages of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are defined in the literature. Although called regular, those DAG-languages are more powerful and, consequently, standard problems have a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Yvo Ad Meeres

Multi-tildes are regular operators that were introduced to enhance the factorization power of regular expressions, allowing us to add the empty word in several factors of a catenation product of languages. In addition to multi-bars, which…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Samira Attou , Ludovic Mignot , Clément Miklarz , Florent Nicart

Hybrid automata are a natural framework for modeling and analyzing systems which exhibit a mixed discrete continuous behaviour. However, the standard operational semantics defined over such models implicitly assume perfect knowledge of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-08-27 Alberto Casagrande , Tommaso Dreossi , Carla Piazza

We prove that, paying a polynomial increase in size only, every unrestricted two-way nondeterministic finite automaton (2NFA) can be complemented by a 1-limited automaton (1-LA), a nondeterministic extension of 2NFAs still characterizing…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Bruno Guillon , Luca Prigioniero , Javad Taheri

A nondeterministic automaton is semantically deterministic (SD) if different nondeterministic choices in the automaton lead to equivalent states. Semantic determinism is interesting as it is a natural relaxation of determinism, and as some…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Bader Abu Radi , Orna Kupferman

We use the notion of a partial action of a monoid to introduce a generalization of automata, which we call "a preautomaton". We study properties of preautomata and of languages recognized by preautomata.

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-06 M. Dokuchaev , B. Novikov , G. Zholtkevych

Linguistic variables represent crisp information in a form and precision appropriate for the problem. For example, to answer the question "How are you?" one may say "I am fine." the linguistic variables like "fine", so common in everyday…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-12-16 Supriya Raheja , Reena Dhadich , Smita Rajpal

Probabilistic context-free grammars (PCFGs) with neural parameterization have been shown to be effective in unsupervised phrase-structure grammar induction. However, due to the cubic computational complexity of PCFG representation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Songlin Yang , Yanpeng Zhao , Kewei Tu

Affine finite automata (AfA) can be more succinct than probabilistic and quantum finite automata when recognizing some regular languages with bounded-error. In this paper, we improve previously known constructions given for the succinctness…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

We study the decidability and expressiveness issues of $\mu$-calculus on data words and data $\omega$-words. It is shown that the full logic as well as the fragment which uses only the least fixpoints are undecidable, while the fragment…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-21 Thomas Colcolmbet , Amaldev Manuel

We present an algorithm for extraction of a probabilistic deterministic finite automaton (PDFA) from a given black-box language model, such as a recurrent neural network (RNN). The algorithm is a variant of the exact-learning algorithm L*,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Gail Weiss , Yoav Goldberg , Eran Yahav

The work investigates the problem of whether a context-free language is a subset of a group language. A.~V. Anisimov has shown that the problem of determining the unambiguity of finite automata is a special case of this problem. Then the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Krasimir Yordzhev

A wide variety of nonmonotonic semantics can be expressed as approximators defined under AFT (Approximation Fixpoint Theory). Using traditional AFT theory, it is not possible to define approximators that rely on information computed in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Spencer Killen , Jia-Huai You

Non deterministic applications arise in many domains, including, stochastic optimization, multi-objectives optimization, stochastic planning, contingent stochastic planning, reinforcement learning, reinforcement learning in partially…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-29 Emad Saad