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Zero automata are a probabilistic extension of parity automata on infinite trees. The satisfiability of a certain probabilistic variant of mso, called tmso + zero, reduces to the emptiness problem for zero automata. We introduce a variant…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Mikolaj Bojańczyk , Hugo Gimbert , Edon Kelmendi

We consider probabilistic automata on infinite words with acceptance defined by parity conditions. We consider three qualitative decision problems: (i) the positive decision problem asks whether there is a word that is accepted with…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-12 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Mathieu Tracol

Model checking properties are often described by means of finite automata. Any particular such automaton divides the set of infinite trees into finitely many classes, according to which state has an infinite run. Building the full type…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Klaus Aehlig

We study the following decision problem: is the language recognized by a quantum finite automaton empty or non-empty? We prove that this problem is decidable or undecidable depending on whether recognition is defined by strict or non-strict…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vincent D. Blondel , Emmanuel Jeandel , Pascal Koiran , Natacha Portier

The languages of infinite timed words accepted by timed automata are traditionally defined using Buchi-like conditions. These acceptance conditions focus on the set of locations visited infinitely often along a run, but completely ignore…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-12 Nathalie Bertrand , Patricia Bouyer , Thomas Brihaye , Amelie Stainer

Automata over infinite objects are a well-established model with applications in logic and formal verification. Traditionally, acceptance in such automata is defined based on the set of states visited infinitely often during a run. However,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Antonio Casares

The B\"uchi non-emptiness problem for timed automata refers to deciding if a given automaton has an infinite non-Zeno run satisfying the B\"uchi accepting condition. The standard solution to this problem involves adding an auxiliary clock…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Frédéric Herbreteau , B. Srivathsan , Igor Walukiewicz

We introduce a model of one-way language acceptors (a variant of a checking stack automaton) and show the following decidability properties: (1) The deterministic version has a decidable membership problem but has an undecidable emptiness…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Oscar H. Ibarra , Ian McQuillan

In [1], we introduced the weakly synchronizing languages for probabilistic automata. In this report, we show that the emptiness problem of weakly synchronizing languages for probabilistic automata is undecidable. This implies that the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-06 Laurent Doyen , Thierry Massart , Mahsa Shirmohammadi

In automata theory, while determinisation provides a standard route to solving many common problems in automata theory, some weak forms of nondeterminism can be dealt with in some problems without costly determinisation. For example, the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Thomas A. Henzinger , Keya Prakash , K. S. Thejaswini

Automata for unordered unranked trees are relevant for defining schemas and queries for data trees in Json or Xml format. While the existing notions are well-investigated concerning expressiveness, they all lack a proper notion of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Adrien Boiret , Vincent Hugot , Joachim Niehren , Ralf Treinen

A weighted automaton is functional if any two accepting runs on the same finite word have the same value. In this paper, we investigate functional weighted automata for four different measures: the sum, the mean, the discounted sum of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Emmanuel Filiot , Raffaella Gentilini , Jean-François Raskin

We study alternating parity good-for-games (GFG) automata, i.e., alternating parity automata where both conjunctive and disjunctive choices can be resolved in an online manner, without knowledge of the suffix of the input word still to be…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Udi Boker , Denis Kuperberg , Karoliina Lehtinen , Michał Skrzypczak

A data tree is a finite tree whose every node carries a label from a finite alphabet and a datum from some infinite domain. We introduce a new model of automata over unranked data trees with a decidable emptiness problem. It is essentially…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Diego Figueira , Luc Segoufin

The aim of this work is to thoroughly investigate Buchi automata augmented with spatial constraints. The input trees of such an automaton are infinite k-ary Sigma-trees, with the nodes standing for time points, and Sigma including,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Amar Isli

We introduce a new class of automata (which we coin EU-automata) running on infininte trees of arbitrary (finite) arity. We develop and study several algorithms to perform classical operations (union, intersection, complement, projection,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-27 François Laroussinie , Nicolas Markey

Automata acceptance can, in several situations of interest, be captured game-theoretically via acceptance games. The existence of a winning strategy for Verifier then captures the existence of a winning run-tree of a given automaton over a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Anita Moyasari , Harsh Beohar , Charles Grellois , Clemens Kupke

Random forests have long been considered as powerful model ensembles in machine learning. By training multiple decision trees, whose diversity is fostered through data and feature subsampling, the resulting random forest can lead to more…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Gilles Audemard , Steve Bellart , Louenas Bounia , Frédéric Koriche , Jean-Marie Lagniez , Pierre Marquis

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 data tree is an unranked ordered tree whose every node is labelled by a letter from a finite alphabet and an element ("datum") from an infinite set, where the latter can only be compared for equality. The article considers alternating…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-06-15 Marcin Jurdzinski , Ranko Lazic