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A crucial question in analyzing a concurrent system is to determine its long-run behaviour, and in particular, whether there are irreversible choices in its evolution, leading into parts of the reachability space from which there is no…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Giann Karlo Aguirre Samboni , Stefan Haar , Loic Paulevé , Stefan Schwoon , Nick Würdemann

The reachability problem in 3-dimensional vector addition systems with states (3-VASS) is known to be PSpace-hard, and to belong to Tower. We significantly narrow down the complexity gap by proving the problem to be solvable in…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Wojciech Czerwiński , Ismaël Jecker , Sławomir Lasota , Łukasz Orlikowski

Petri nets proved useful to describe various real-world systems, but many of their properties are very hard to check. To alleviate this difficulty, subclasses are often considered. The class of weighted marked graphs with relaxed place…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Thomas Hujsa , Bernard Berthomieu , Silvano Dal Zilio , Didier Le Botlan

In this paper we introduce a new network reachability problem where the goal is to find the most reliable path between two nodes in a network, represented as a directed acyclic graph. Individual edges within this network may fail according…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-06-26 Allen Chang , Eyal Amir

Artificial intelligence systems are increasingly embedded as persistent, closed-loop components within cyber-physical, social, and institutional processes. Rather than producing isolated outputs, such systems operate continuously under…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-07 Otman Basir

We investigate the complexity of the reachability problem for (deep) neural networks: does it compute valid output given some valid input? It was recently claimed that the problem is NP-complete for general neural networks and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Marco Sälzer , Martin Lange

Reachability in pushdown vector addition systems with states (PVASS) is among the longest standing open problems in Theoretical Computer Science. We show that the problem is decidable in full generality. Our decision procedure is similar in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Roland Guttenberg , Eren Keskin , Roland Meyer

We survey 25 years of research on decidability issues for Petri nets. We collect results on the decidability of important properties, equivalence notions, and temporal logics.

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Javier Esparza , Mogens Nielsen

In many kinds of infinite-state systems, the coverability problem has significantly lower complexity than the reachability problem. In order to delineate the border of computational hardness between coverability and reachability, we propose…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yousef Shakiba , Henry Sinclair-Banks , Georg Zetzsche

Reachability and LTL model-checking problems for flat counter systems are known to be decidable but whereas the reachability problem can be shown in NP, the best known complexity upper bound for the latter problem is made of a tower of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Stéphane Demri , Amit Kumar Dhar , Arnaud sangnier

Elementary net systems (ENS) are the most fundamental class of Petri nets. Their synthesis problem has important applications in the design of digital hardware and commercial processes. Given a labeled transition system (TS) $A$,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Christian Rosenke , Ronny Tredup

In this paper, we study the problem of non-blockingness verification by tapping into the basis reachability graph (BRG). Non-blockingness is a property that ensures that all pre-specified tasks can be completed, which is a mandatory…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Chao Gu , Ziyue Ma , Zhiwu Li , Alessandro Giua

Elementary Object Systems (EOS) are a form of Petri Net (PN) where tokens carry internal PN. This model has been recently proposed for analysis of robustness of Multi Agent Systems. While EOS reachability is known to be undecidable, the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Francesco Di Cosmo , Soumodev Mal , Tephilla Prince

We study the complexity of reachability problems on branching extensions of vector addition systems, which allows us to derive new non-elementary complexity bounds for fragments and variants of propositional linear logic. We show that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Ranko Lazić , Sylvain Schmitz

An $\mathsf{F}_{d}$ upper bound for the reachability problem in vector addition systems with states (VASS) in fixed dimension is given, where $\mathsf{F}_d$ is the $d$-th level of the Grzegorczyk hierarchy of complexity classes. The new…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Yuxi Fu , Qizhe Yang , Yangluo Zheng

In this paper we investigate formal verification problems for Neural Network computations. Various reachability problems will be in the focus, such as: Given symbolic specifications of allowed inputs and outputs in form of Linear…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Adrian Wurm

Reachability analysis is a formal method to guarantee safety of dynamical systems under the influence of uncertainties. A substantial bottleneck of all reachability algorithms is the necessity to adequately tune specific algorithm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Mark Wetzlinger , Niklas Kochdumper , Stanley Bak , Matthias Althoff

Reversible computation is an unconventional form of computing where any executed sequence of operations can be executed in reverse at any point during computation. It has recently been attracting increasing attention in various research…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Anna Philippou , Kyriaki Psara

Elementary Object Systems (EOSs) are a model in the nets-within-nets (NWNs) paradigm, where tokens in turn can host standard Petri nets. We study the complexity of the reachability problem of EOSs when subjected to non-deterministic token…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Francesco Di Cosmo , Soumodev Mal , Tephilla Prince

A control system consists of a plant component and a controller which periodically computes a control input for the plant. We consider systems where the controller is implemented by a feedforward neural network with ReLU activations. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Christian Schilling , Martin Zimmermann