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We introduce layered automata, a subclass of alternating parity automata that generalises deterministic automata. Assuming a consistency property, these automata are history deterministic and 0-1 probabilistic. We show that every…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Antonio Casares , Christof Löding , Igor Walukiewicz

We develop a new type and effect system based on B\"uchi automata to capture finite and infinite traces produced by programs in a small language which allows non-deterministic choices and infinite recursions. There are two key technical…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Martin Hofmann , Wei Chen

Extensions of {\omega}-automata to infinite alphabets typically rely on symbolic guards to keep the transition relation finite, and on registers or memory cells to preserve information from past symbols. Symbolic transitions alone are…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Luca Di Stefano

We show that there are $\Sigma_3^0$-complete languages of infinite words accepted by non-deterministic Petri nets with B\"uchi acceptance condition, or equivalently by B\"uchi blind counter automata. This shows that omega-languages accepted…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-28 Olivier Finkel , Michał Skrzypczak

Probabilistic automata are an extension of nondeterministic finite automata in which transitions are annotated with probabilities. Despite its simplicity, this model is very expressive and many of the associated algorithmic questions are…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Nathanaël Fijalkow , Cristian Riveros , James Worrell

We consider a general class of decision problems concerning formal languages, called ``(one-dimensional) unboundedness predicates'', for automata that feature reversal-bounded counters (RBCA). We show that each problem in this class reduces…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Pascal Baumann , Flavio D'Alessandro , Moses Ganardi , Oscar Ibarra , Ian McQuillan , Lia Schütze , Georg Zetzsche

We exhibit the construction of a deterministic automaton that, given k > 0, recognizes the (regular) language of k-differentiable words. Our approach follows a scheme of Crochemore et al. based on minimal forbidden words. We extend this…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Jean-Marc Fédou , Gabriele Fici

We prove that $\omega$-regular languages accepted by B\"uchi or Muller automata satisfy an effective automata-theoretic version of the Baire property. Then we use this result to obtain a new effective property of rational functions over…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-09-24 Olivier Finkel

One clock alternating timed automata (OCATA) have been introduced as natural extension of (one clock) timed automata to express the semantics of MTL. In this paper, we consider the application of OCATA to the problems of model-checking and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-06-18 Thomas Brihaye , Morgane Estiévenart , Gilles Geeraerts

When a property needs to be checked against an unknown or very complex system, classical exploration techniques like model-checking are not applicable anymore. Sometimes a~monitor can be used, that checks a given property on the underlying…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-07 Volker Diekert , Anca Muscholl , Igor Walukiewicz

We study alternating automata with qualitative semantics over infinite binary trees: alternation means that two opposing players construct a decoration of the input tree called a run, and the qualitative semantics says that a run of the…

We introduce a measure called width, quantifying the amount of nondeterminism in automata. Width generalises the notion of good-for-games (GFG) automata, that correspond to NFAs of width 1, and where an accepting run can be built on-the-fly…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Denis Kuperberg , Anirban Majumdar

In this paper, we first introduce a lower bound technique for the state complexity of transformations of automata. Namely we suggest first considering the class of full automata in lower bound analysis, and later reducing the size of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Qiqi Yan

Symbolic Finite Automata and Register Automata are two orthogonal extensions of finite automata motivated by real-world problems where data may have unbounded domains. These automata address a demand for a model over large or infinite…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Loris D'Antoni , Tiago Ferreira , Matteo Sammartino , Alexandra Silva

The use of monoids in the study of word languages recognized by finite-state automata has been quite fruitful. In this work, we look at the same idea of "recognizability by finite monoids" for other monoids. In particular, we attempt to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Pranshu Gaba , Arnab Sur

Chains of co-B\"uchi automata (COCOA) have recently been introduced as a new canonical model for representing arbitrary omega-regular languages. They can be minimized in polynomial time and are hence an attractive language representation…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Rüdiger Ehlers

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

History-deterministic automata are those in which nondeterministic choices can be correctly resolved stepwise: there is a strategy to select a continuation of a run given the next input letter so that if the overall input word admits some…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Soumyajit Paul , David Purser , Sven Schewe , Qiyi Tang , Patrick Totzke , Di-De Yen

Nominal techniques provide a mathematically principled approach to dealing with names and variable binding in programming languages. This paper explores an attempt to make nominal techniques accessible as an Agda library. We aim for a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Murdoch J. Gabbay , Orestis Melkonian

We introduce partially ordered two-way B\"uchi automata and characterize their expressive power in terms of fragments of first-order logic FO[<]. Partially ordered two-way B\"uchi automata are B\"uchi automata which can change the direction…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Manfred Kufleitner , Alexander Lauser