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String languages recognizable in (deterministic) log-space are characterized either by two-way (deterministic) multi-head automata, or following Immerman, by first-order logic with (deterministic) transitive closure. Here we elaborate this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Joost Engelfriet , Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom

A modal logic is \emph{non-iterative} if it can be defined by axioms that do not nest modal operators, and \emph{rank-1} if additionally all propositional variables in axioms are in scope of a modal operator. It is known that every…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Jonas Forster , Lutz Schröder

We propose regular expressions to abstractly model and study properties of resource-aware computations. Inspired by nominal techniques -- as those popular in process calculi -- we extend classical regular expressions with names (to model…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-29 Alexander Kurz , Tomoyuki Suzuki , Emilio Tuosto

We introduce regular languages of morphisms in free monoidal categories, with their associated grammars and automata. These subsume the classical theory of regular languages of words and trees, but also open up a much wider class of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Matthew Earnshaw , Paweł Sobociński

In this article, we provide three coalgebraic characterizations of the class of context-free languages, each based on the idea of adding coalgebraic structure to an existing algebraic structure by specifying output-derivative pairs. Final…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Joost Winter , Jan J. M. Rutten , Marcello M. Bonsangue

A deterministic finite automaton is directable if it has a directing word which takes the automaton from every state to the same state. These notions have been extended also to other kinds of automata. Thus, B.~Imreh and M.~Steinby (1999)…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Magnus Steinby

In this paper we regard languages and their acceptors - such as deterministic or weighted automata, transducers, or monoids - as functors from input categories that specify the type of the languages and of the machines to categories that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Thomas Colcombet , Daniela Petrişan

We introduce a new measure on regular languages: their nondeterministic syntactic complexity. It is the least degree of any extension of the `canonical boolean representation' of the syntactic monoid. Equivalently, it is the least number of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Robert Myers , Stefan Milius , Henning Urbat

Deterministic finite automata (DFAs) are constructed for various purposes in computational biology. Little attention, however, has been given to the efficient construction of minimal DFAs. In this article, we define simple non-deterministic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-10 Tobias Marschall

This paper introduces the retrieval-augmented large language model with Definite Finite Automaton (DFA-RAG), a novel framework designed to enhance the capabilities of conversational agents using large language models (LLMs). Traditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yiyou Sun , Junjie Hu , Wei Cheng , Haifeng Chen

Let $NFA_b(q)$ denote the set of languages accepted by nondeterministic finite automata with $q$ states over an alphabet with $b$ letters. Let $B_n$ denote the set of words of length $n$. We give a quadratic lower bound on the VC dimension…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen , Clyde James Felix , Sun Young Kim , Ethan Lamb , Davin Takahashi

We define a model of predicate logic in which every term and predicate, open or closed, has an absolute denotation independently of a valuation of the variables. For each variable a, the domain of the model contains an element [[a]] which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Gilles Dowek , Murdoch J. Gabbay

In computational argumentation, gradual semantics are fine-grained alternatives to extension-based and labelling-based semantics . They ascribe a dialectical strength to (components of) arguments sanctioning their degree of acceptability.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Anna Rapberger , Fabrizio Russo , Antonio Rago , Francesca Toni

In the field of computational logic, two classes of finite automata are considered fundamental: deterministic and nondeterministic automata (DFAs and NFAs). In a more fine-grained approach three natural intermediate classes were introduced,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Karolina Drabik , Anita Dürr , Fabian Frei , Filip Mazowiecki , Karol Węgrzycki

We introduce a quantum-like classical computational model, called affine computation, as a generalization of probabilistic computation. After giving the basics of affine computation, we define affine finite automata (AfA) and compare it…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Alejandro Díaz-Caro , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

This thesis details a project to define a fully compositional theory of synchronous sequential circuits built from primitive components, motivated by applying techniques successfully used in programming languages to hardware. The first part…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-13 George Kaye

We consider an algebra with non-standard operations on the class of row monomial matrices (having one unit and rest of zeros in every row). The class of row monomial matrices is closed under multiplication, but not closed under ordinary…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-05 A. N. Trahtman

Finitary Idealized Concurrent Algol (FICA) is a prototypical programming language combining functional, imperative, and concurrent computation. There exists a fully abstract game model of FICA, which in principle can be used to prove…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Alex Dixon , Ranko Lazić , Andrzej S. Murawski , Igor Walukiewicz

We introduce flat automata for automatic generation of tokenizers. Flat automata are a simple representation of standard finite automata. Using the flat representation, automata can be easily constructed, combined and printed. Due to the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Hans de Nivelle , Dina Muktubayeva

A bialgebra is a structure which is simultaneously an algebra and a coalgebra, such that the algebraic and coalgebraic parts are "compatible". Bialgebras are normally studied over a field or commutative ring. In this paper, we show how to…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2009-10-30 James Worthington