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Exclusive nondeterministic finite automata (XNFA) are nondeterministic finite automata with a special acceptance condition. An input is accepted if there is exactly one accepting path in its computation tree. If there are none or more than…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Martin Kutrib , Andreas Malcher , Matthias Wendlandt

Non-deterministic Finite Automata (NFA) represent regular languages concisely, increasing their appeal for applications such as word recognition. This paper proposes a new approach to generate NFA from an interaction language such as UML…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Erwan Mahe , Boutheina Bannour , Christophe Gaston , Arnault Lapitre , Pascale Le Gall

We investigate the magic number problem, that is, the question whether there exists a minimal n-state nondeterministic finite automaton (NFA) whose equivalent minimal deterministic finite automaton (DFA) has alpha states, for all n and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-11 Markus Holzer , Sebastian Jakobi , Martin Kutrib

An acyclic deterministic finite automaton (ADFA) is a data structure that represents a set of strings (i.e., a dictionary) and facilitates a pattern searching problem of determining whether a given pattern string is present in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Hiroki Shibata , Masakazu Ishihata , Shunsuke Inenaga

We consider the computability and complexity of decision questions for Probabilistic Finite Automata (PFA) with sub-exponential ambiguity. We show that the emptiness problem for strict and non-strict cut-points of polynomially ambiguous…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Paul C. Bell

We study the problem of enumerating the satisfying valuations of a circuit while bounding the delay, i.e., the time needed to compute each successive valuation. We focus on the class of structured d-DNNF circuits originally introduced in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Antoine Amarilli , Pierre Bourhis , Louis Jachiet , Stefan Mengel

In this paper, we propose an architecture of oritatami systems with which one can simulate an arbitrary nondeterministic finite automaton (NFA) in a unified manner. The oritatami system is known to be Turing-universal but the simulation…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Yo-Sub Han , Hwee Kim , Yusei Masuda , Shinnosuke Seki

The identification of deterministic finite automata (DFAs) from labeled examples is a cornerstone of automata learning, yet traditional methods focus on learning monolithic DFAs, which often yield a large DFA lacking simplicity and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Junjie Meng , Jie An , Yong Li , Andrea Turrini , Fanjiang Xu , Naijun Zhan , Miaomiao Zhang

In this paper we report on an application of computer algebra in which mathematical puzzles are generated of a type that had been widely used in mathematics contests by a large number of participants worldwide. The algorithmic aspect of our…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Thomas Wolf , Chimaobi Amadi

Forest automata (FA) have recently been proposed as a tool for shape analysis of complex heap structures. FA encode sets of tree decompositions of heap graphs in the form of tuples of tree automata. In order to allow for representing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Lukas Holik , Ondrej Lengal , Adam Rogalewicz , Jiri Simacek , Tomas Vojnar

Cryptanalysis of block ciphers involves massive computations which are independent of each other and can be instantiated simultaneously so that the solution space is explored at a faster rate. With the advent of low cost Field Programmable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-04-25 Harshali Zodpe , Prakash Wani , Rakesh Mehta

The automation of decision procedures makes certification essential. We suggest to use determinacy of turn-based two-player games with regular winning conditions in order to generate certificates for the number of states that a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Orna Kupferman , Nir Lavee , Salomon Sickert

A digital computer is generally believed to be an efficient universal computing device; that is, it is believed able to simulate any physical computing device with an increase in computation time of at most a polynomial factor. This may not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-20 Peter W. Shor

Finite state automata (FSA) are ubiquitous in computer science. Two of the most important algorithms for FSA processing are the conversion of a non-deterministic finite automaton (NFA) to a deterministic finite automaton (DFA), and then the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-03-30 Vlad Slavici , Daniel Kunkle , Gene Cooperman , Stephen Linton

Multi-letter {\it quantum finite automata} (QFAs) were a quantum variant of classical {\it one-way multi-head finite automata} (J. Hromkovi\v{c}, Acta Informatica 19 (1983) 377-384), and it has been shown that this new one-way QFAs…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-01 Daowen Qiu , Xiangfu Zou , Lvzhou Li , Paulo Mateus

We introduce a measure called width, quantifying the amount of nondeterminism in automata. Width generalises the notion of good-for-games (GFG) automata, that correspond to NFAs of width 1, and where an accepting run can be built on-the-fly…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Denis Kuperberg , Anirban Majumdar

In this paper we discourse basises of representable algebras. This question lead to arithmetic problems. We prove algorithmical solvability of exponential-Diophantine equations in rings represented by matrices over fields of positive…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2020-05-12 A. A. Chilikov , A. Ya. Belov

We construct algorithms that efficiently generate random factorisations of values $P(n)$ as products of two integers, where $P\in\mathbb{Z}[x]$ is a given quadratic or cubic monic polynomial. In other words, the algorithms produce random…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Dmitry Badziahin

A distribution matcher (DM) encodes a binary input data sequence into a sequence of symbols with a desired target probability distribution. Several DMs, including shell mapping and constant-composition distribution matcher (CCDM), have been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Marcin Pikus , Wen Xu , Gerhard Kramer

The problem of k-minimisation for a DFA M is the computation of a smallest DFA N (where the size |M| of a DFA M is the size of the domain of the transition function) such that their recognized languages differ only on words of length less…

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