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We consider distributed systems with an arbitrary number of processes, modelled by timed automata that communicate through location guards: a process can take a guarded transition if at least one other process is in a given location. In…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Étienne André , Swen Jacobs , Engel Lefaucheux

We consider the synthesis of distributed implementations for specifications in parameterized temporal logics such as PROMPT-LTL, which extends LTL by temporal operators equipped with parameters that bound their scope. For single process…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Swen Jacobs , Leander Tentrup , Martin Zimmermann

This paper studies the growing domain of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) problems. Motivated by scheduling problems arising in RPA, we study the parameterized complexity of the single-machine problem $1|\text{prec},r_j,d_j|*$. We focus on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Michal Dvořák , Antonín Novák , Přemysl Šůcha , Dušan Knop , Claire Hanen

Estimating and quantifying uncertainty in unknown system parameters from limited data remains a challenging inverse problem in a variety of real-world applications. While many approaches focus on estimating constant parameters, a subset of…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-05-09 Andrea Arnold

Interrupt Timed Automata (ITA) is an expressive timed model, introduced to take into account interruptions, according to levels. Due to this feature, this formalism is incomparable with Timed Automata. However several decidability results…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Béatrice Bérard , Serge Haddad , Aleksandra Jovanović , Didier Lime

We introduce a tableau decision method for deciding realizability of specifications expressed in a safety fragment of LTL that includes bounded future temporal operators. Tableau decision procedures for temporal and modal logics have been…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Montserrat Hermo , Paqui Lucio , César Sánchez

Given a Markov decision process (MDP) $M$ and a formula $\Phi$, the strategy synthesis problem asks if there exists a strategy $\sigma$ s.t. the resulting Markov chain $M[\sigma]$ satisfies $\Phi$. This problem is known to be undecidable…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Benjamin Bordais , Damien Busatto-Gaston , Shibashis Guha , Jean-François Raskin

We argue that parameterized complexity is a useful tool with which to study global constraints. In particular, we show that many global constraints which are intractable to propagate completely have natural parameters which make them…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-03-04 Christian Bessiere , Emmanuel Hebrard , Brahim Hnich , Zeynep Kiziltan , Toby Walsh

Updatable timed automata (UTA) are extensions of classic timed automata that allow special updates to clock variables, like x:= x - 1, x := y + 2, etc., on transitions. Reachability for UTA is undecidable in general. Various subclasses with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Paul Gastin , Sayan Mukherjee , B Srivathsan

Automatic synthesis from linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications is widely used in robotic motion planning, control of autonomous systems, and load distribution in power networks. A common specification pattern in such applications…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Rayna Dimitrova , Mahsa Ghasemi , Ufuk Topcu

Ensuring that agents satisfy safety specifications can be crucial in safety-critical environments. While methods exist for controller synthesis with safe temporal specifications, most existing methods restrict safe temporal specifications…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Gaspard Ohlmann , Edwin Hamel-De le Court , Francesco Belardinelli

We propose deterministic timed automata (DTA) as a model-independent language for specifying performance and dependability measures over continuous-time stochastic processes. Technically, these measures are defined as limit frequencies of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Tomáš Brázdil , Jan Krčál , Jan Křetínský , Antonín Kučera , Vojtěch Řehák

We present a (semi)-algorithm to compute winning strategies for parametric timed games. Previous algorithms only synthesized constraints on the clock parameters for which the game is winning. A new definition of (winning) strategies is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Mikael Bisgaard Dahlsen-Jensen , Baptiste Fievet , Laure Petrucci , Jaco van de Pol

We study the synthesis problem for systems with a parameterized number of processes. As in the classical case due to Church, the system selects actions depending on the program run so far, with the aim of fulfilling a given specification.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Béatrice Bérard , Benedikt Bollig , Mathieu Lehaut , Nathalie Sznajder

Asking which sets are fixed-parameter tractable for a given parameterization constitutes much of the current research in parameterized complexity theory. This approach faces some of the core difficulties in complexity theory. By focussing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Jouke Witteveen , Leen Torenvliet

The deterministic membership problem for timed automata asks whether the timed language given by a nondeterministic timed automaton can be recognised by a deterministic timed automaton. An analogous problem can be stated in the setting of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Lorenzo Clemente , Sławomir Lasota , Radosław Piórkowski

This paper investigates the decidability of opacity in timed automata (TA), a property that has been proven to be undecidable in general. First, we address a theoretical gap in recent work by J. An et al. (FM 2024) by providing necessary…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-02 Weilin Deng , Daowen Qiu , Jingkai Yang

We study the problem of revising specifications with preferences for automata based control synthesis problems. In this class of revision problems, the user provides a numerical ranking of the desirability of the subgoals in their…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Kangjin Kim , Georgios Fainekos

Among the biggest challenges in property-based testing (PBT) is the constrained random generation problem: given a predicate on program values, randomly sample from the set of all values satisfying that predicate, and only those values.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Harrison Goldstein , Hila Peleg , Cassia Torczon , Daniel Sainati , Leonidas Lampropoulos , Benjamin C. Pierce

We present here Imitator II, a new version of Imitator, a tool implementing the "inverse method" for parametric timed automata: given a reference valuation of the parameters, it synthesizes a constraint such that, for any valuation…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-02 Étienne André