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Abstract numeration systems encode natural numbers using radix ordered words of an infinite regular language and linear recurrence sequences play a key role in their valuation. Sequence automata, which are deterministic finite automata with…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Olivier Carton , Jean-Michel Couvreur , Martin Delacourt , Nicolas Ollinger

We investigate the proof theory of regular expressions with fixed points, construed as a notation for (omega-)context-free grammars. Starting with a hypersequential system for regular expressions due to Das and Pous, we define its extension…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Anupam Das , Abhishek De

Text normalization (TN) systems in production are largely rule-based using weighted finite-state transducers (WFST). However, WFST-based systems struggle with ambiguous input when the normalized form is context-dependent. On the other hand,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Evelina Bakhturina , Yang Zhang , Boris Ginsburg

Alternating parity automata (APAs) provide a robust formalism for modelling infinite behaviours and play a central role in formal verification. Despite their widespread use, the algebraic theory underlying APAs has remained largely…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Anupam Das , Abhishek De

Context-free grammar simplification is a subject of high importance in computer language processing technology as well as in formal language theory. This paper presents a formalization, using the Coq proof assistant, of the fact that…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-19 Marcus V. M. Ramos , Ruy J. G. B. de Queiroz

Graph-based modeling plays a fundamental role in many areas of computer science. In this paper, we introduce systems of graph formulas with variables for specifying graph properties; this notion generalizes the graph formulas introduced in…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Frank Drewes , Berthold Hoffmann , Mark Minas

We introduce the notion of multipass automata as a generalization of pushdown automata and study the classes of languages accepted by such machines. The class of languages accepted by deterministic multipass automata is exactly the Boolean…

String diagrams provide an intuitive language for expressing networks of interacting processes graphically. A discrete representation of string diagrams, called string graphs, allows for mechanised equational reasoning by double-pushout…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-10-14 Aleks Kissinger , Vladimir Zamdzhiev

The class of tree-adjoining languages can be characterized by various two-level formalisms, consisting of a context-free grammar (CFG) or pushdown automaton (PDA) controlling another CFG or PDA. These four formalisms are equivalent to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Alexandra Butoi , Tim Vieira , Ryan Cotterell , David Chiang

This paper connects the classes of weighted alternating finite automata (WAFA), weighted finite tree automata (WFTA), and polynomial automata (PA). First, we investigate the use of trees in the run semantics for weighted alternating…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Gustav Grabolle

Probabilistic B\"uchi automata are a natural generalization of PFA to infinite words, but have been studied in-depth only rather recently and many interesting questions are still open. PBA are known to accept, in general, a class of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Christof Löding , Anton Pirogov

We propose a scalable framework for deciding, proving, and explaining (in-)equivalence of context-free grammars. We present an implementation of the framework and evaluate it on large data sets collected within educational support systems.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Marko Schmellenkamp , Thomas Zeume , Sven Argo , Sandra Kiefer , Cedric Siems , Fynn Stebel

$\omega$-regular languages are a natural extension of the regular languages to the setting of infinite words. Likewise, they are recognised by a host of automata models, one of the most important being Alternating Parity Automata (APAs), a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Anupam Das , Abhishek De

Infinite words over infinite alphabets serve as models of the temporal development of the allocation and (re-)use of resources over linear time. We approach omega-languages over infinite alphabets in the setting of nominal sets, and study…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Henning Urbat , Daniel Hausmann , Stefan Milius , Lutz Schröder

Nested weighted automata (NWA) present a robust and convenient automata-theoretic formalism for quantitative specifications. Previous works have considered NWA that processed input words only in the forward direction. It is natural to allow…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Thomas A. Henzinger , Jan Otop

The hyperedge replacement grammar (HRG) formalism is a natural and well-known generalization of context-free grammars. HRGs inherit a number of properties of context-free grammars, e.g. the pumping lemma. This lemma turns out to be a strong…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Tikhon Pshenitsyn

The aim of the paper is to build a connection between two approaches towards categorical language theory: the coalgebraic and algebraic language theory for monads. For a pair of monads modelling the branching and the linear type we defined…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Tomasz Brengos , Marco Peressotti

In the last years, various extensions of {\omega}-regular languages have been proposed in the literature, including {\omega}B-regular ({\omega}-regular languages extended with boundedness), {\omega}S-regular ({\omega}-regular languages…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Dario Della Monica , Angelo Montanari , Pietro Sala

This paper revisits the solution of the word problem for $\omega$-terms interpreted over finite aperiodic semigroups, obtained by J. McCammond. The original proof of correctness of McCammond's algorithm, based on normal forms for such…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Jorge Almeida , José Carlos Costa , Marc Zeitoun

In this paper we revisit the regular-language representation of game semantics of second-order recursion free Idealized Algol with infinite data types. By using symbolic values instead of concrete ones we generalize the standard notion of…

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