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We consider a variant of reachability in Vector Addition Systems (VAS) dubbed \emph{box reachability}, whereby a vector $v\in \mathbb{N}^d$ is box-reachable from $0$ in a VAS $V$ if $V$ admits a path from $0$ to $v$ that not only stays in…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Shaull Almagor , Itay Hasson , Michał Pilipczuk , Michael Zaslavski

We consider the model of one-dimensional Pushdown Vector Addition Systems (1-PVAS), a fundamental computational model simulating both recursive and concurrent behaviours. Our main result is decidability of the reachability problem for…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Clotilde Bizière , Wojciech Czerwiński

The recent years have seen remarkable progress in establishing the complexity of the reachability problem for vector addition systems with states (VASS), equivalently known as Petri nets. Existing work primarily considers the case in which…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Andrei Draghici , Christoph Haase , Andrew Ryzhikov

We study the complexity of reachability problems on branching extensions of vector addition systems, which allows us to derive new non-elementary complexity bounds for fragments and variants of propositional linear logic. We show that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Ranko Lazić , Sylvain Schmitz

Numerous tasks in program analysis and synthesis reduce to deciding reachability in possibly infinite graphs such as those induced by Petri nets. However, the Petri net reachability problem has recently been shown to require non-elementary…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Michael Blondin , Christoph Haase , Philip Offtermatt

We investigate Petri nets with data, an extension of plain Petri nets where tokens carry values from an infinite data domain, and executability of transitions is conditioned by equalities between data values. We provide a decision procedure…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Łukasz Kamiński , Sławomir Lasota

A central decision problem in Petri net theory is reachability asking whether a given marking can be reached from the initial marking. Related is the covering problem (or sub-marking reachbility), which decides whether there is a reachable…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Thomas M. Prinz , Christopher T. Schwanen , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

This paper is about reachability analysis in a restricted subclass of multi-pushdown automata. We assume that the control states of an automaton are partially ordered, and all transitions of an automaton go downwards with respect to the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Wojciech Czerwiński , Piotr Hofman , SŁawomir Lasota

Reachability problems in infinite-state systems are often subject to extremely high complexity. This motivates the investigation of efficient overapproximations, where we add transitions to obtain a system in which reachability can be…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Moses Ganardi , Rupak Majumdar , Georg Zetzsche

A pushdown vector addition system with states (PVASS) extends the model of vector addition systems with a pushdown store. A PVASS is said to be \emph{bidirected} if every transition (pushing/popping a symbol or modifying a counter) has an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Moses Ganardi , Rupak Majumdar , Andreas Pavlogiannis , Lia Schütze , Georg Zetzsche

We investigate the parameterised complexity of the classic coverability problem for vector addition systems (VAS): given a finite set of vectors $V \subseteq\mathbb{Z}^d$, an initial configuration $s\in\mathbb{N}^d$, and a target…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Michał Pilipczuk , Sylvain Schmitz , Henry Sinclair-Banks

Branching VASS (BVASS) generalise vector addition systems with states by allowing for special branching transitions that can non-deterministically distribute a counter value between two control states. A run of a BVASS consequently becomes…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Stefan Göller , Christoph Haase , Ranko Lazić , Patrick Totzke

Petri nets are a classical model of concurrency widely used and studied in formal verification with many applications in modeling and analyzing hardware and software, data bases, and reactive systems. The reachability problem is central…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Jérôme Leroux

We design a variation of the Karp-Miller algorithm to compute, in a forward manner, a finite representation of the cover (i.e., the downward closure of the reachability set) of a vector addition system with one zero-test. This algorithm…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Rémi Bonnet , Alain FInkel , Jérôme Leroux , Marc Zeitoun

We consider a variant of VASS extended with integer counters, denoted VASS+Z. These are automata equipped with N and Z counters; the N-counters are required to remain nonnegative and the Z-counters do not have this restriction. We study the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Clotilde Bizière , Wojciech Czerwiński , Roland Guttenberg , Jérôme Leroux , Vincent Michielini , Łukasz Orlikowski , Antoni Puch , Henry Sinclair-Banks

We consider the model of pushdown vector addition systems with resets. These consist of vector addition systems that have access to a pushdown stack and have instructions to reset counters. For this model, we study the coverability problem.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Sylvain Schmitz , Georg Zetzsche

In this paper we propose augmented interval Markov chains (AIMCs): a generalisation of the familiar interval Markov chains (IMCs) where uncertain transition probabilities are in addition allowed to depend on one another. This new model…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Ventsislav Chonev

This paper proves the NP-completeness of the reachability problem for the class of flat counter machines with difference bounds and, more generally, octagonal relations, labeling the transitions on the loops. The proof is based on the fact…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Marius Bozga , Radu Iosif , Filip Konecny

Reachability queries ask whether there exists a path from the source vertex to the target vertex on a graph. Recently, several powerful reachability queries, such as Label-Constrained Reachability (LCR) queries and Regular Path Queries…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Huihui Yang , Pingpeng Yuan

When designing optimal controllers for any system, it is often the case that the true state of the system is unknown to the controller, for example due to noisy measurements or partially observable states. Incomplete state information must…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-23 Kendra Lesser , Meeko Oishi