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The deterministic membership problem for timed automata asks whether the timed language recognised by a nondeterministic timed automaton can be recognised by a deterministic timed automaton. We show that the problem is decidable when the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Lorenzo Clemente , Sławomir Lasota , Radosław Piórkowski

Parametric timed automata extend the standard timed automata with the possibility to use parameters in the clock guards. In general, if the parameters are real-valued, the problem of language emptiness of such automata is undecidable even…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Nikola Beneš , Peter Bezděk , Kim G. Larsen , Jiří Srba

We present a system for Complex Event Recognition (CER) based on automata. While multiple such systems have been described in the literature, they typically suffer from a lack of clear and denotational semantics, a limitation which often…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Elias Alevizos , Alexander Artikis , Georgios Paliouras

Timed automata (TAs) are an extension of finite automata that can measure and react to the passage of time, providing the ability to handle real-time constraints using clocks. In 2009, Franck Cassez showed that the timed opacity problem,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Étienne André , Sarah Dépernet , Engel Lefaucheux

We define the class of explorable automata on finite or infinite words. This is a generalization of History-Deterministic (HD) automata, where this time non-deterministic choices can be resolved by building finitely many simultaneous runs…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Emile Hazard , Olivier Idir , Denis Kuperberg

One clock alternating timed automata (OCATA) have been introduced as natural extension of (one clock) timed automata to express the semantics of MTL. In this paper, we consider the application of OCATA to the problems of model-checking and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-06-18 Thomas Brihaye , Morgane Estiévenart , Gilles Geeraerts

The class of known constraint automata for which the constrained synchronization problem is in NP all admit a special form. In this work, we take a closer look at them. We characterize a wider class of constraint automata that give…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Stefan Hoffmann

It is well known that (timed) $\omega$-regular properties such as `p holds at every even position' and `p occurs at least three times within the next 10 time units' cannot be expressed in Metric Interval Temporal Logic ($\mathsf{MITL}$) and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Hsi-Ming Ho

In this paper we review algorithms for checking diagnosability of discrete-event systems and timed automata. We point out that the diagnosability problems in both cases reduce to the emptiness problem for (timed) B\"uchi automata. Moreover,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Franck Cassez

ELAN is a powerful language and environment for specifying and prototyping deduction systems in a language based on rewrite rules controlled by strategies. Timed automata is a class of continuous real-time models of reactive systems for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Emmanuel Beffara , Olivier Bournez , Hassen Kacem , Claude Kirchner

ELAN is a powerful language and environment for specifying and prototyping deduction systems in a language based on rewrite rules controlled by strategies. Timed automata is a class of continuous real-time models of reactive systems for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-07-20 Emmanuel Beffara , Olivier Bournez , Hassen Kacem , Claude Kirchner

Recently there has been a significant effort to handle quantitative properties in formal verification and synthesis. While weighted automata over finite and infinite words provide a natural and flexible framework to express quantitative…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-24 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Thomas A. Henzinger , Jan Otop

In a one-counter automaton (OCA), one can produce a letter from some finite alphabet, increment and decrement the counter by one, or compare it with constants up to some threshold. It is well-known that universality and language inclusion…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Benedikt Bollig

It has been argued that Event Calculus (EC) is suitable for modeling high-level specifications of safety-critical cyber-physical systems. The primary advantage lies in the rather small semantic gap between EC models and requirements…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Ondřej Vašíček , Joaquin Arias , Jan Fiedor , Gopal Gupta , Brendan Hall , Bohuslav Křena , Brian Larson , Tomáš Vojnar

Automata expressiveness is an essential feature in understanding which of the formalisms available should be chosen for modelling a particular problem. Probabilistic and stochastic automata are suitable for modelling systems exhibiting…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Valentin Bura , Tim French , Mark Reynolds

We present a new language semantics for real-time concurrency. Its operational models are higher-dimensional timed automata (HDTAs), a generalization of both higher-dimensional automata and timed automata. In real-time concurrent systems,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Amazigh Amrane , Hugo Bazille , Emily Clement , Uli Fahrenberg , Philipp Schlehuber-Caissier

The expanding cellular automata (XCA) variant of cellular automata is investigated and characterized from a complexity-theoretical standpoint. An XCA is a one-dimensional cellular automaton which can dynamically create new cells between…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Augusto Modanese

Probabilistic timed automata (PTAs) are timed automata (TAs) extended with discrete probability distributions.They serve as a mathematical model for a wide range of applications that involve both stochastic and timed behaviours. In this…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Hongfei Fu , Yi Li , Jianlin Li , Lijun Zhang

As an alternative to visibly pushdown automata, we introduce visibly recursive automata (VRAs), composed of a set of classical automata that can call each other. VRAs are a strict extension of so-called systems of procedural automata, a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Kévin Dubrulle , Véronique Bruyère , Guillermo A. Pérez , Gaëtan Staquet

Automata models for data languages (i.e. languages over infinite alphabets) often feature either global or local freshness operators. We show that Bollig et al.'s session automata, which focus on global freshness, are equivalent to regular…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Lutz Schröder , Dexter Kozen , Stefan Milius , Thorsten Wißmann