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The game tree languages can be viewed as an automata-theoretic counterpart of parity games on graphs. They witness the strictness of the index hierarchy of alternating tree automata, as well as the fixed-point hierarchy over binary trees.…

Logic · Mathematics 2009-02-11 Szczepan Hummel , Henryk Michalewski , Damian Niwinski

We consider infinite-state Attacker-Defender games with reachability objectives. The results of the paper are twofold. Firstly we prove a new language-theoretic result for weighted automata on infinite words and show its encoding into the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Vesa Halava , Tero Harju , Reino Niskanen , Igor Potapov

In the classic problem of sequence prediction, a predictor receives a sequence of values from an emitter and tries to guess the next value before it appears. The predictor masters the emitter if there is a point after which all of the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-09 Tim Smith

Decision trees are widely used for interpretable machine learning due to their clearly structured reasoning process. However, this structure belies a challenge we refer to as predictive equivalence: a given tree's decision boundary can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Hayden McTavish , Zachery Boner , Jon Donnelly , Margo Seltzer , Cynthia Rudin

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

Automata operating on infinite objects feature prominently in the theory of the modal $\mu$-calculus. One such application concerns the tableau games introduced by Niwi\'{n}ski & Walukiewicz, of which the winning condition for infinite…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Maurice Dekker , Johannes Kloibhofer , Johannes Marti , Yde Venema

The fully enriched μ-calculus is the extension of the propositional μ-calculus with inverse programs, graded modalities, and nominals. While satisfiability in several expressive fragments of the fully enriched μ-calculus is known…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Piero A. Bonatti , Carsten Lutz , Aniello Murano , Moshe Y. Vardi

The uncertainty of multidimensional shift spaces draws attracted attention of researchers. For example, the emptiness problem is undecidable; there exist aperiodic shifts of finite type; there is a nonempty shift of finite type exhibiting…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-07-20 Jung-Chao Ban , Chih-Hung Chang

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. Safety one-way alternating automata with one register on infinite data words are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-04-12 Ranko Lazic

Some of the most interesting and important results concerning quantum finite automata are those showing that they can recognize certain languages with (much) less resources than corresponding classical finite automata…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Shenggen Zheng , Jozef Gruska , Daowen Qiu

Altenbernd, Thomas and W\"ohrle have considered in [ATW02] acceptance of languages of infinite two-dimensional words (infinite pictures) by finite tiling systems, with the usual acceptance conditions, such as the B\"uchi and Muller ones,…

Logic · Mathematics 2011-08-03 Olivier Finkel

Probabilistic timed automata are a suitable formalism to model systems with real-time, nondeterministic and probabilistic behaviour. We study two-player zero-sum games on such automata where the objective of the game is specified as the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Vojtěch Forejt , Marta Kwiatkowska , Gethin Norman , Ashutosh Trivedi

1-way quantum finite automata are deterministic and reversible in nature, which greatly reduces its accepting property. In fact the set of languages accepted by 1-way quantum finite automata is a proper subset of regular languages. In this…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-10 Kingshuk Chatterjee , Kumar Sankar Ray

Weighted automata (WA) are an important formalism to describe quantitative properties. Obtaining equivalent deterministic machines is a longstanding research problem. In this paper we consider WA with a set semantics, meaning that the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Laure Daviaud , Ismael Jecker , Pierre-Alain Reynier , Didier Villevalois

Several problems in planning and reactive synthesis can be reduced to the analysis of two-player quantitative graph games. {\em Optimization} is one form of analysis. We argue that in many cases it may be better to replace the optimization…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Suguman Bansal , Krishnendu Chatterjee , Moshe Y. Vardi

Timed automata and register automata are well-known models of computation over timed and data words respectively. The former has clocks that allow to test the lapse of time between two events, whilst the latter includes registers that can…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Diego Figueira , Piotr Hofman , Sławomir Lasota

This paper studies a fundamental mechanism of how to detect a conflict between arguments given sentiments regarding acceptability of the arguments. We introduce a concept of the inverse problem of the abstract argumentation to tackle the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Hiroyuki Kido , Beishui Liao

We define the class of explorable automata on finite or infinite words. This is a generalization of History-Deterministic (HD) automata, where this time non-deterministic choices can be resolved by building finitely many simultaneous runs…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Emile Hazard , Olivier Idir , Denis Kuperberg

Symbolic Finite Automata and Register Automata are two orthogonal extensions of finite automata motivated by real-world problems where data may have unbounded domains. These automata address a demand for a model over large or infinite…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Loris D'Antoni , Tiago Ferreira , Matteo Sammartino , Alexandra Silva

Query evaluation in monadic second-order logic (MSO) is tractable on trees and treelike instances, even though it is hard for arbitrary instances. This tractability result has been extended to several tasks related to query evaluation, such…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Antoine Amarilli , Pierre Bourhis , Pierre Senellart