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This paper tackles the problem of synthesizing specifications for nondeterministic programs. For such programs, useful specifications can capture demonic properties, which hold for every nondeterministic execution, but also angelic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Kanghee Park , Xuanyu Peng , Loris D'Antoni

The classical Church synthesis problem, solved by Buchi and Landweber, treats the synthesis of finite state systems. The synthesis of infinite state systems, on the other hand, has only been investigated few times since then, with no…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Ohad Drucker , Alexander Rabinovich

Finite valued constraint satisfaction problems are a formalism for describing many natural optimization problems, where constraints on the values that variables can take come with rational weights and the aim is to find an assignment of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-04-15 Anuj Dawar , Pengming Wang

We study the separability problem for automatic relations (i.e., relations on finite words definable by synchronous automata) in terms of recognizable relations (i.e., finite unions of products of regular languages). This problem takes as…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Pablo Barceló , Diego Figueira , Rémi Morvan

Language models now provide an interface to express and often solve general problems in natural language, yet their ultimate computational capabilities remain a major topic of scientific debate. Unlike a formal computer, a language model is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Alex Lewandowski , Marlos C. Machado , Dale Schuurmans

Using the notions and tools from realization in the sense of systems theory, we establish an explicit and new realization formula for families of infinite products of rational matrix-functions of a single complex variable. Our realizations…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2015-02-09 Daniel Alpay , Palle Jorgensen , Izchak Lewkowicz

Synthesis from examples enables non-expert users to generate programs by specifying examples of their behavior. A domain-specific form of such synthesis has been recently deployed in a widely used spreadsheet software product. In this paper…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Mikaël Mayer , Jad Hamza , Viktor Kuncak

Classical reactive synthesis approaches aim to synthesize a reactive system that always satisfies a given specifications. These approaches often reduce to playing a two-player zero-sum game where the goal is to synthesize a winning…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Karan Muvvala , Qi Heng Ho , Morteza Lahijanian

Given a specification of linear-time temporal logic interpreted over finite traces (LTLf), the reactive synthesis problem asks to find a finitely-representable, terminating controller that reacts to the uncontrollable actions of an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Luca Geatti , Marco Montali , Andrey Rivkin

We show that equivalence of deterministic top-down tree-to-string transducers is decidable, thus solving a long standing open problem in formal language theory. We also present efficient algorithms for subclasses: polynomial time for total…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-30 Helmut Seidl , Sebastian Maneth , Gregor Kemper

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 a generalisation of B\"uchi-Landweber games to the timed setting. The winning condition is specified by a non-deterministic timed automaton, and one of the players can elapse time. We perform a systematic study of synthesis…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Sławomir Lasota , Mathieu Lehaut , Julie Parreaux , Radosław Piórkowski

An uninterpreted program (UP) is a program whose semantics is defined over the theory of uninterpreted functions. This is a common abstraction used in equivalence checking, compiler optimization, and program verification. While simple, the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Hari Govind V K , Sharon Shoham , Arie Gurfinkel

Termination of programs, i.e., the absence of infinite computations, ensures the existence of normal forms for all initial expressions, thus providing an essential ingredient for the definition of a normalization semantics for functional…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-12-23 Salvador Lucas

Productivity is the property that finite prefixes of an infinite constructor term can be computed using a given term rewrite system. Hitherto, productivity has only been considered for orthogonal systems, where non-determinism is not…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-04-26 Matthias Raffelsieper

Reactive synthesis aims at automatic construction of systems from their behavioural specifications. The research mostly focuses on synthesis of systems dealing with Boolean signals. But real-life systems are often described using…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Ayrat Khalimov , Benedikt Maderbacher , Roderick Bloem

Runtime efficiency and termination are crucial properties in the studies of program verification. Instead of dealing with these issues in an ad hoc manner, it would be useful to develop a robust framework in which such properties are…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Weijun Chen , Yuxi Fu , Huan Long

Logic languages based on the theory of rational, possibly infinite, trees have much appeal in that rational trees allow for faster unification (due to the safe omission of the occurs-check) and increased expressivity (cyclic terms can…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Roberto Bagnara , Roberta Gori , Patricia M. Hill , Enea Zaffanella

The class of Basic Feasible Functionals BFF is the second-order counterpart of the class of first-order functions computable in polynomial time. We present several implicit characterizations of BFF based on a typed programming language of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Emmanuel Hainry , Bruce M. Kapron , Jean-Yves Marion , Romain Péchoux

Tree transductions are binary relations of finite trees. For tree transductions defined by non-deterministic top-down tree transducers, inclusion, equivalence and synthesis problems are known to be undecidable. Adding origin semantics to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Sarah Winter