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This paper introduces a class of objects called decision rules that map infinite sequences of alternatives to a decision space. These objects can be used to model situations where a decision maker encounters alternatives in a sequence such…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-09-12 Bhavook Bhardwaj , Siddharth Chatterjee

In this vision paper, we explore the challenges and opportunities of a form of computation that employs an empirical (rather than a formal) approach, where the solution of a computational problem is returned as empirically most likely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Eric Tang , Marcel Böhme

The question of whether all problems in NP class are also in P class is generally considered one of the most important open questions in mathematics and theoretical computer science as it has far-reaching consequences to other problems in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Wenhong Tian

We study games with reachability objectives under energy constraints. We first prove that under strict energy constraints (either only lower-bound constraint or interval constraint), those games are LOGSPACE-equivalent to energy games with…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Loïc Hélouët , Nicolas Markey , Ritam Raha

The $\textbf{P}$ vs. $\textbf{NP}$ problem is an important problem in contemporary mathematics and theoretical computer science. Many proofs have been proposed to this problem. This paper proposes a theoretic proof for $\textbf{P}$ vs.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Changlin Wan , Zhongzhi Shi

This paper studies the reduction (abstraction) of finite-state transition systems for control synthesis problems. We revisit the notion of alternating simulation equivalence (ASE), a more relaxed condition than alternating bisimulations, to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Gabriel de Albuquerque Gleizer , Khushraj Nanik Madnani , Manuel Mazo

Turing's famous 'machine' framework provides an intuitively clear conception of 'computing with real numbers'. A recursive counterexample to a theorem shows that the theorem does not hold when restricted to computable objects. These…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Sam Sanders

This paper investigates $\exists\mathbb{R}(r^{\mathbb{Z}})$, that is the extension of the existential theory of the reals by an additional unary predicate $r^{\mathbb{Z}}$ for the integer powers of a fixed computable real number $r > 0$. If…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Jorge Gallego-Hernández , Alessio Mansutti

The P versus NP problem is studied under the relational model of E. F. Codd. I found that the term "complete configuration" is unnecessary and harmful in computational complexity theory because of excessive symbol redundancy. For an input,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Aizhong Li

We prove that P-sel, the class of all P-selective sets, is EXP-immune, but is not EXP/1-immune. That is, we prove that some infinite P-selective set has no infinite EXP-time subset, but we also prove that every infinite P-selective set has…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Lane A. Hemaspaandra , Leen Torenvliet

Infinite time Turing machines extend the operation of ordinary Turing machines into transfinite ordinal time. By doing so, they provide a natural model of infinitary computability, a theoretical setting for the analysis of the power and…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joel David Hamkins

Models of computation operating over the real numbers and computing a larger class of functions compared to the class of general recursive functions invariably introduce a non-finite element of infinite information encoded in an arbitrary…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-12-20 Hector Zenil

We conduct a computability-theoretic study of Ramsey-like theorems of the form "Every coloring of the edges of an infinite clique admits an infinite sub-clique avoiding some pattern", with a particular focus on transitive patterns. As it…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Quentin Le Houérou , Ludovic Patey

We study a polynomial-time decision problem in which each input encodes a depth-$N$ causal execution in which a single non-duplicable token must traverse an ordered sequence of steps, revealing at most $O(1)$ bits of routing information at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Jing-Yuan Wei

Burkart, Caucal, Steffen (1995) showed a procedure deciding bisimulation equivalence of processes in Basic Process Algebra (BPA), i.e. of sequential processes generated by context-free grammars. They improved the previous decidability…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Petr Jancar

This article presents a general solution to the problem of computational complexity. First, it gives a historical introduction to the problem since the revival of the foundational problems of mathematics at the end of the 19th century.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Rami Zaidan

We will find a lower bound on the recognition complexity of the theories that are nontrivial relative to some equivalence relation (this relation may be equality), namely, each of these theories is consistent with the formula, whose sense…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Ivan V. Latkin

We start by an introduction to the basic concepts of computability theory and the introduction of the concept of Turing machine and computation universality. Then se turn to the exploration of trade-offs between different measures of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-04-19 Joost J. Joosten , Fernando Soler-Toscano , Hector Zenil

Termination is a central property in sequential programming models: a term is terminating if all its reduction sequences are finite. Termination is also important in concurrency in general, and for message-passing programs in particular. A…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Joseph W. N. Paulus , Jorge A. Pérez , Daniele Nantes-Sobrinho

We present an enhancement of exp(ASP), a system that generates explanation graphs for a literal l - an atom a or its default negation ~a - given an answer set A of a normal logic program P, which explain why l is true (or false) given A and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Ly Ly Trieu , Tran Cao Son , Marcello Balduccini