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We introduce an automata model for data words, that is words that carry at each position a symbol from a finite alphabet and a value from an unbounded data domain. The model is (semantically) a restriction of data automata, introduced by…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Ahmet Kara , Thomas Schwentick , Tony Tan

We study the capabilities of probabilistic finite-state machines that act as verifiers for certificates of language membership for input strings, in the regime where the verifiers are restricted to toss some fixed nonzero number of coins…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-21 M. Utkan Gezer , A. C. Cem Say

Reaction automata are a formal model that has been introduced to investigate the computing powers of interactive behaviors of biochemical reactions([14]). Reaction automata are language acceptors with multiset rewriting mechanism whose…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-17 Fumiya Okubo , Satoshi Kobayashi , Takashi Yokomori

Let $S$ be a Scott set, or even an $\omega$-model of $\mathsf{WWKL}$. Then for each $A\in S$, either there is $X \in S$ that is weakly 2-random relative to $A$, or there is $X\in S$ that is 1-generic relative to $A$. It follows that if…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-11-02 Linda Brown Westrick

In this paper, we consider block languages, namely sets of words having the same length, and we propose a new representation for these languages. In particular, given an alphabet of size $k$ and a length $\ell$, a block language can be…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Guilherme Duarte , Nelma Moreira , Luca Prigioniero , Rogério Reis

Counters that hold natural numbers are ubiquitous in modeling and verifying software systems; for example, they model dynamic creation and use of resources in concurrent programs. Unfortunately, such discrete counters often lead to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-27 A. R. Balasubramanian , Matthew Hague , Rupak Majumdar , Ramanathan S. Thinniyam , Georg Zetzsche

A hard real-time system cannot miss any deadline. A weakly-hard real-time system, on the contrary, is designed to tolerate a specific number of deadline misses. For instance, the AnyMiss(2, 300) weakly-hard constraint stipulates that in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Rieke de Maeyer , Holger Hermanns , Martina Maggio

In this work we study a non-linear generalization based on affine transformations of probabilistic and quantum automata proposed recently by D\'iaz-Caro and Yakary{\i}lmaz \cite{DCY16A} referred as affine automata. First, we present…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Marcos Villagra , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

We investigate the class of visibly pushdown languages in the sliding window model. A sliding window algorithm for a language $L$ receives a stream of symbols and has to decide at each time step whether the suffix of length $n$ belongs to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Moses Ganardi

Weighted automata are nondeterministic automata with numerical weights on transitions. They can define quantitative languages~$L$ that assign to each word~$w$ a real number~$L(w)$. In the case of infinite words, the value of a run is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Laurent Doyen , Thomas A Henzinger

We show that various aspects of k-automatic sequences -- such as having an unbordered factor of length n -- are both decidable and effectively enumerable. As a consequence it follows that many related sequences are either k-automatic or…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-14 Emilie Charlier , Narad Rampersad , Jeffrey Shallit

We introduce layered automata, a subclass of alternating parity automata that generalises deterministic automata. Assuming a consistency property, these automata are history deterministic and 0-1 probabilistic. We show that every…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Antonio Casares , Christof Löding , Igor Walukiewicz

The Halting problem of a quantum computer is considered. It is shown that if halting of a quantum computer takes place the associated dynamics is described by an irreversible operator.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 A. E. Shalyt-Margolin , V. I. Strazhev , A. Ya. Tregubovich

We study the problem of regular separability of languages of vector addition systems with states (VASS). It asks whether for two given VASS languages K and L, there exists a regular language R that includes K and is disjoint from L. While…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Wojciech Czerwiński , Georg Zetzsche

In a recent paper, Altenbernd, Thomas and W\"ohrle have considered acceptance of languages of infinite two-dimensional words (infinite pictures) by finite tiling systems, with the usual acceptance conditions, such as the B\"uchi and Muller…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-01-27 Olivier Finkel

It is well-known that any finite $\Pi^{0}_{1}$-class of $2^{\mathbb N}$ has a computable member. Then, how can we understand this in the context of reverse mathematics? In this note, we consider several very weak fragments of K\H{o}nig's…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Stephen G. Simpson , Keita Yokoyama

Two languages are "finitely different" if their symmetric difference is finite. We consider the DFAs of finitely different regular languages and find major structural similarities. We proceed to consider the smallest DFAs that recognize a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Andrew Badr , Ian Shipman

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

Chomsky and others have very directly claimed that large language models (LLMs) are equally capable of learning languages that are possible and impossible for humans to learn. However, there is very little published experimental evidence to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Julie Kallini , Isabel Papadimitriou , Richard Futrell , Kyle Mahowald , Christopher Potts

We study the sweep complexity of DFA in one-way jumping mode answering several questions posed earlier. This measure is the number of times in the worst case that such machines have to return to the beginning of their input after having…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Szilárd Zsolt Fazekas , Robert Mercaş