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A deterministic finite automaton is said to be synchronizing if it has a reset word, i.e. a word that brings all states of the automaton to a particular one. We prove that it is a PSPACE-complete problem to check whether the language of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-15 Marina Maslennikova

Additive Cost Register Automata (ACRA) map strings to integers using a finite set of registers that are updated using assignments of the form "x := y + c" at every step. The corresponding class of additive regular functions has multiple…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-29 Rajeev Alur , Mukund Raghothaman

Automata extraction is a method for synthesising interpretable surrogates for black-box neural models that can be analysed symbolically. Existing techniques assume a finite input alphabet, and thus are not directly applicable to data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Chih-Duo Hong , Hongjian Jiang , Anthony W. Lin , Oliver Markgraf , Julian Parsert , Tony Tan

A data language is a set of finite words defined on an infinite alphabet. Data languages are used to express properties associated with data values (domain defined over a countably infinite set). In this paper, we introduce set augmented…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Ansuman Banerjee , Kingshuk Chatterjee , Shibashis Guha

We study the computational complexity of various problems related to synchronization of weakly acyclic automata, a subclass of widely studied aperiodic automata. We provide upper and lower bounds on the length of a shortest word…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Andrew Ryzhikov

We have improved an algorithm generating synchronizing automata with a large length of the shortest reset words. This has been done by refining some known results concerning bounds on the reset length. Our improvements make possible to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-15 Andrzej Kisielewicz , Jakub Kowalski , Marek Szykuła

We introduce session automata, an automata model to process data words, i.e., words over an infinite alphabet. Session automata support the notion of fresh data values, which are well suited for modeling protocols in which sessions using…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Benedikt Bollig , Peter Habermehl , Martin Leucker , Benjamin Monmege

We develop a general framework for the specification and implementation of systems whose executions are words, or partial orders, over an infinite alphabet. As a model of an implementation, we introduce class register automata, a one-way…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-10 Benedikt Bollig

Weighted automata (WA) are an extension of finite automata that define functions from words to values in a given semiring. An alternative deterministic model, called Cost Register Automata (CRA), was introduced by Alur et al. It enriches…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Yahia Idriss Benalioua , Nathan Lhote , Pierre-Alain Reynier

We consider general computational models: one-way and two-way finite automata, and logarithmic space Turing machines, all equipped with an auxiliary data structure (ADS). The definition of an ADS is based on the language of protocols of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Alexander Rubtsov , Mikhail Vyalyi

We study extremal and algorithmic questions of subset and careful synchronization in monotonic automata. We show that several synchronization problems that are hard in general automata can be solved in polynomial time in monotonic automata,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Andrew Ryzhikov , Anton Shemyakov

An index for a finite automaton is a powerful data structure that supports locating paths labeled with a query pattern, thus solving pattern matching on the underlying regular language. In this paper, we solve the long-standing problem of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Nicola Cotumaccio , Nicola Prezza

A data word is a sequence of pairs of a letter from a finite alphabet and an element from an infinite set, where the latter can only be compared for equality. To reason about data words, linear temporal logic is extended by the freeze…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-04-03 Stephane Demri , Ranko Lazic

We study synthesis of reactive systems interacting with environments using an infinite data domain. A popular formalism for specifying and modelling such systems is register automata and transducers. They extend finite-state automata by…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Léo Exibard , Emmanuel Filiot , Ayrat Khalimov

We study synthesis of reactive systems interacting with environments using an infinite data domain. A popular formalism for specifying and modelling such systems is register automata and transducers. They extend finite-state automata by…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Léo Exibard , Emmanuel Filiot , Ayrat Khalimov

Fast matching of regular expressions with bounded repetition, aka counting, such as (ab){50,100}, i.e., matching linear in the length of the text and independent of the repetition bounds, has been an open problem for at least two decades.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Lukáš Holík , Juraj Síč , Lenka Turoňová , Tomáš Vojnar

We study a connection between synchronizing automata and its set $M$ of minimal reset words, i.e., such that no proper factor is a reset word. We first show that any synchronizing automaton having the set of minimal reset words whose set of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Emanuele Rodaro

A word w is called synchronizing (recurrent, reset, directed) word of a deterministic finite automaton (DFA) if w sends all states of the automaton on a unique state. Jan Cerny had found in 1964 a sequence of n-state complete DFA with…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-09-11 A. N. Trahtman

It was conjectured by \v{C}ern\'y in 1964, that a synchronizing DFA on $n$ states always has a synchronizing word of length at most $(n-1)^2$, and he gave a sequence of DFAs for which this bound is reached. Until now a full analysis of all…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Michiel de Bondt , Henk Don , Hans Zantema

Our starting point are register automata for data words, in the style of Kaminski and Francez. We study the effects of the single-use restriction, which says that a register is emptied immediately after being used. We show that under the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Mikołaj Bojańczyk , Rafał Stefański