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Guarded Kleene Algebra with Tests (GKAT) is the fragment of Kleene Algebra with Tests (KAT) that arises by replacing the union and iteration operations of KAT with predicate-guarded variants. GKAT is more efficiently decidable than KAT and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Stefan Zetzsche , Alexandra Silva , Matteo Sammartino

We introduce a formal language for specifying dynamic updates for Software Defined Networks. Our language builds upon Network Kleene Algebra with Tests (NetKAT) and adds constructs for synchronisations and multi-packet behaviour to capture…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Georgiana Caltais , Hossein Hojjat , Mohammad Mousavi , Hunkar Can Tunc

We propose Kleene algebra with domain (KAD), an extension of Kleene algebra with two equational axioms for a domain and a codomain operation, respectively. KAD considerably augments the expressiveness of Kleene algebra, in particular for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 J. Desharnais , B. Möller , G. Struth

Weighted programs generalize probabilistic programs and offer a framework for specifying and encoding mathematical models by means of an algorithmic representation. Kleene algebra with tests is an algebraic formalism based on regular…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Igor Sedlár

We present a reflexive tactic for deciding the equational theory of Kleene algebras in the Coq proof assistant. This tactic relies on a careful implementation of efficient finite automata algorithms, so that it solves casual equations…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Thomas Braibant , Damien Pous

We propose a generalisation of concurrent Kleene algebra \cite{Hoa09} that can take account of probabilistic effects in the presence of concurrency. The algebra is proved sound with respect to a model of automata modulo a variant of rooted…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-31 Annabelle McIver , Tahiry Rabehaja , Georg Struth

Kleene algebra with tests is an extension of Kleene algebra, the algebra of regular expressions, which can be used to reason about programs. We develop a coalgebraic theory of Kleene algebra with tests, along the lines of the coalgebraic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Hubie Chen , Riccardo Pucella

Kleene Algebra (KA) is a useful tool for proving that two programs are equivalent. Because KA's equational theory is decidable, it integrates well with interactive theorem provers. This raises the question: which equations can we (not)…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Tobias Kappé

We introduce Probabilistic Guarded Kleene Algebra with Tests (ProbGKAT), an extension of GKAT that allows reasoning about uninterpreted imperative programs with probabilistic branching. We give its operational semantics in terms of special…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Wojciech Różowski , Tobias Kappé , Dexter Kozen , Todd Schmid , Alexandra Silva

Guarded Kleene Algebra with Tests (GKAT) is a fragment of Kleene Algebra with Tests (KAT) that was recently introduced to reason efficiently about imperative programs. In contrast to KAT, GKAT does not have an algebraic axiomatization, but…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Tobias Kappé , Todd Schmid , Alexandra Silva

Symbolic and logic computation systems ranging from computer algebra systems to theorem provers are finding their way into science, technology, mathematics and engineering. But such systems rely on explicitly or implicitly represented…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-05-04 Florian Rabe , Michael Kohlhase

We exhibit a uniform method for obtaining (wellfounded and non-wellfounded) cut-free sequent-style proof systems that are sound and complete for various classes of action algebras, i.e., Kleene algebras enriched with meets and residuals.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Wesley Fussner , Simon Santschi , Borja Sierra Miranda

We prove that the equational theory of Kleene algebra with commutativity conditions on primitives (or atomic terms) is undecidable, thereby settling a longstanding open question in the theory of Kleene algebra. While this question has also…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Arthur Azevedo de Amorim , Cheng Zhang , Marco Gaboardi

We study Kleene iteration in the categorical context. A celebrated completeness result by Kozen introduced Kleene algebra (with tests) as a ubiquitous tool for lightweight reasoning about program equivalence, and yet, numerous variants of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Sergey Goncharov , Tarmo Uustalu

This booklet serves as an introduction to Kleene Algebra (KA), a set of laws that can be used to study general equivalences between programs. It discusses how general programs can be modeled using regular expressions, how those expressions…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Tobias Kappé , Alexandra Silva , Jana Wagemaker

We propose Weighted Guarded Kleene Algebra with Tests (wGKAT), an uninterpreted weighted programming language equipped with branching, conditionals, and loops. We provide an operational semantics for wGKAT using a variant of weighted…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Spencer Van Koevering , Wojciech Różowski , Alexandra Silva

Knowledge Tracing (KT) is a critical task in online learning for modeling student knowledge over time. Despite the success of deep learning-based KT models, which rely on sequences of numbers as data, most existing approaches fail to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Unggi Lee , Jiyeong Bae , Dohee Kim , Sookbun Lee , Jaekwon Park , Taekyung Ahn , Gunho Lee , Damji Stratton , Hyeoncheol Kim

We prove two completeness results for Kleene algebra with tests and a top element, with respect to guarded string languages and binary relations. While the equational theories of those two classes of models coincide over the signature of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-09 Damien Pous , Jana Wagemaker

The primary focus of recent work with largescale transformers has been on optimizing the amount of information packed into the model's parameters. In this work, we ask a different question: Can multimodal transformers leverage explicit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Liangke Gui , Borui Wang , Qiuyuan Huang , Alex Hauptmann , Yonatan Bisk , Jianfeng Gao

We give a formal treatment of simple type theories, such as the simply-typed $\lambda$-calculus, using the framework of abstract clones. Abstract clones traditionally describe first-order structures, but by equipping them with additional…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Nathanael Arkor , Dylan McDermott