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Motivated by questions from program transformations, eight notions of isomorphisms between term rewriting systems are defined, analysed, and classified. The notions include global isomorphisms, where the renaming of variables and function…

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Attribute grammars (AGs) are a formal technique for defining semantics of programming languages. Existing complexity proofs on the circularity problem of AGs are based on automata theory, such as writing pushdown acceptor and alternating…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Pei-Chi Wu

We study the emptiness and $\lambda$-reachability problems for unary and binary Probabilistic Finite Automata (PFA) and characterise the complexity of these problems in terms of the degree of ambiguity of the automaton and the size of its…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Paul C. Bell , Pavel Semukhin

Threshold automata are a formalism for modeling and analyzing fault-tolerant distributed algorithms, recently introduced by Konnov, Veith, and Widder, describing protocols executed by a fixed but arbitrary number of processes. We conduct…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-02 A. R. Balasubramanian , Javier Esparza , Marijana Lazic

We propose a novel automata model over the alphabet of rational numbers, which we call register automata over the rationals (RA-Q). It reads a sequence of rational numbers and outputs another rational number. RA-Q is an extension of the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Yu-Fang Chen , Ondrej Lengal , Tony Tan , Zhilin Wu

Pushdown systems (PDS) are known as an abstract model of recursive programs, and model checking methods for PDS have been studied. Register PDS (RPDS) are PDS augmented by registers to deal with data values from an infinite domain in a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Yoshiaki Takata , Ryoma Senda , Hiroyuki Seki

We analyze affine reachability problems in dimensions 1 and 2. We show that the reachability problem for 1-register machines over the integers with affine updates is PSPACE-hard, hence PSPACE-complete, strengthening a result by Finkel et…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Stefan Jaax , Stefan Kiefer

We introduce session automata, an automata model to process data words, i.e., words over an infinite alphabet. Session automata support the notion of fresh data values, which are well suited for modeling protocols in which sessions using…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Benedikt Bollig , Peter Habermehl , Martin Leucker , Benjamin Monmege

Recently data trees and data words have received considerable amount of attention in connection with XML reasoning and system verification. These are trees or words that, in addition to labels from a finite alphabet, carry data values from…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Ahmet Kara , Tony Tan

Programs with dynamic allocation are able to create and use an unbounded number of fresh resources, such as references, objects, files, etc. We propose History-Register Automata (HRA), a new automata-theoretic formalism for modelling such…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Radu Grigore , Nikos Tzevelekos

We investigate the complexity of the separation problem associated to classes of regular languages. For a class C, C-separation takes two regular languages as input and asks whether there exists a third language in C which includes the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Thomas Place , Marc Zeitoun

Bisimulation is crucial for verifying process equivalence in probabilistic systems. This paper presents a novel logical framework for analyzing bisimulation in probabilistic parameterized systems, namely, infinite families of finite-state…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Chih-Duo Hong , Anthony W. Lin , Philipp Rümmer , Rupak Majumdar

In order to converge in the presence of concurrent updates, modern eventually consistent replication systems rely on causality information and operation semantics. It is relatively easy to use semantics of high-level operations on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-17 Marek Zawirski , Carlos Baquero , Annette Bieniusa , Nuno Preguiça , Marc Shapiro

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 is concerned with Freeze LTL, a temporal logic on data words with registers. In a (multi-attributed) data word each position carries a letter from a finite alphabet and assigns a data value to a fixed, finite set of attributes.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Normann Decker , Daniel Thoma

Register automata (RAs) are finite automata extended with a finite set of registers to store and compare data from an infinite domain. We study the concept of synchronizing data words in RAs: does there exist a data word that sends all…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Karin Quaas , Mahsa Shirmohammadi

Indexed languages are a classical notion in formal language theory, which has attracted attention in recent decades due to its role in higher-order model checking: They are precisely the languages accepted by order-2 pushdown automata. The…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Richard Mandel , Corto Mascle , Georg Zetzsche

Nonuniform families of polynomial-size finite automata and pushdown automata respectively have strong connections to nonuniform-NL and nonuniform-LOGCFL. We examine the behaviors of unambiguous and co-nondeterministic computations produced…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Tomoyuki Yamakami

This paper studies the complexity of determining whether a formula in the modal logics characterizing the nested-simulation semantics is characteristic for some process, which is equivalent to determining whether the formula is satisfiable…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Luca Aceto , Antonis Achilleos , Aggeliki Chalki , Anna Ingólfsdóttir

Programs that combine I/O and countable probabilistic choice, modulo either bisimilarity or trace equivalence, can be seen as describing a probabilistic strategy. For well-founded programs, we might expect to axiomatize bisimilarity via a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Nathan Bowler , Sergey Goncharov , Paul Blain Levy