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

We continue the systematic investigation of probabilistic and quantum finite automata (PFAs and QFAs) on promise problems by focusing on unary languages. We show that bounded-error QFAs are more powerful than PFAs. But, in contrary to the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-12 Aida Gainutdinova , Abuzer Yakaryilmaz

In this paper we consider state reachability in networks composed of many identical processes running a parametric timed broadcast protocol (PTBP). PTBP are a new model extending both broadcast protocols and parametric timed automata. This…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Étienne André , Benoît Delahaye , Paulin Fournier , Didier Lime

We prove the following facts about the language recognition power of quantum Turing machines (QTMs) in the unbounded error setting: QTMs are strictly more powerful than probabilistic Turing machines for any common space bound $ s $…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-01-29 Abuzer Yakaryilmaz , A. C. Cem Say

First, we show that universality and other properties of general jumping finite automata are undecidable, which answers a question asked by Meduna and Zemek in 2012. Second, we close the study raised by \v{C}erno and Mr\'{a}z in 2010 by…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Vojtěch Vorel

The value 1 problem is a decision problem for probabilistic automata over finite words: are there words accepted by the automaton with arbitrarily high probability? Although undecidable, this problem attracted a lot of attention over the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-15 Nathanaël Fijalkow

We show that there cannot be any algorithm that for a given nondeterministic polynomial-time Turing machine determinates whether or not the language recognized by this machine belongs to P

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-11-09 V. G. Naidenko

The parity index problem of tree automata asks, given a regular tree language $L$ and a set of priorities $J$, is $L$ $J$-feasible, that is, recognised by a nondeterministic parity automaton with priorities $J$? This is a long-standing open…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Olivier Idir , Karoliina Lehtinen

This paper presents a state-merging algorithm for learning timed languages definable by Event-Recording Automata (ERA) using positive and negative samples in the form of symbolic timed words. Our algorithm, LEAP (Learning Event-recording…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Anirban Majumdar , Sayan Mukherjee , Jean-François Raskin

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

A Persuasive Teachable Agent (PTA) is a special type of Teachable Agent which incorporates a persuasion theory in order to provide persuasive and more personalized feedback to the student. By employing the persuasion techniques, the PTA…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Zhiwei Zeng

We introduce a model of register automata over infinite trees with extrema constraints. Such an automaton can store elements of a linearly ordered domain in its registers, and can compare those values to the suprema and infima of register…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Szymon Toruńczyk , Thomas Zeume

A non-deterministic recursion scheme recognizes a language of finite trees. This very expressive model can simulate, among others, higher-order pushdown automata with collapse. We show decidability of the diagonal problem for schemes. This…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Lorenzo Clemente , Paweł Parys , Sylvain Salvati , Igor Walukiewicz

We introduce languages of higher-dimensional automata (HDAs) and develop some of their properties. To this end, we define a new category of precubical sets, uniquely naturally isomorphic to the standard one, and introduce a notion of event…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Uli Fahrenberg , Christian Johansen , Georg Struth , Krzysztof Ziemiański

Making a linguistic theory is like making a programming language: one typically devises a type system to delineate the acceptable utterances and a denotational semantics to explain observations on their behavior. Via this connection, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Chung-chieh Shan

Automata with monitor counters, where the transitions do not depend on counter values, and nested weighted automata are two expressive automata-theoretic frameworks for quantitative properties. For a well-studied and wide class of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Thomas A. Henzinger , Jan Otop

We consider the value 1 problem for probabilistic automata over finite words: it asks whether a given probabilistic automaton accepts words with probability arbitrarily close to 1. This problem is known to be undecidable. However, different…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Nathanaël Fijalkow

We address the following decision problem. Given a numeration system $U$ and a $U$-recognizable set $X\subseteq\mathbb{N}$, i.e. the set of its greedy $U$-representations is recognized by a finite automaton, decide whether or not $X$ is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-09-04 E. Charlier , A. Massuir , M. Rigo , E. Rowland

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

In this work, we show that very natural, apparently simple problems in quantum measurement theory can be undecidable even if their classical analogues are decidable. Undecidability hence appears as a genuine quantum property here. Formally,…

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