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We present new results on realtime alternating, private alternating, and quantum alternating automaton models. Firstly, we show that the emptiness problem for alternating one-counter automata on unary alphabets is undecidable. Then, we…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Gökalp Demirci , Mika Hirvensalo , Klaus Reinhardt , A. C. Cem Say , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

We study the satisfiability problem for a modal logic expressing knowing-how assertions, which captures an agent's ability to achieve a given goal under the standard semantics based on linear plans. Our main result shows that satisfiability…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Carlos Areces , Pablo Barceló , Valentin Cassano , Pablo F. Castro , Stéphane Demri , Raul Fervari

We study the computational complexity of model checking and satisfiability problems of polyadic modal logics extended with permutations and Boolean operators on accessibility relations. First, we show that the combined complexity of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Reijo Jaakkola

We consider the setting of stochastic multiagent systems modelled as stochastic multiplayer games and formulate an automated verification framework for quantifying and reasoning about agents' trust. To capture human trust, we work with a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Xiaowei Huang , Marta Kwiatkowska , Maciej Olejnik

Threshold automata are a formalism for modeling and analyzing fault-tolerant distributed algorithms, recently introduced by Konnov, Veith, and Widder, describing protocols executed by a fixed but arbitrary number of processes. We conduct…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-02 A. R. Balasubramanian , Javier Esparza , Marijana Lazic

We formalize and study the multi-goal task assignment and path finding (MG-TAPF) problem from theoretical and algorithmic perspectives. The MG-TAPF problem is to compute an assignment of tasks to agents, where each task consists of a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Xinyi Zhong , Jiaoyang Li , Sven Koenig , Hang Ma

We study the so-called dynamic coverage problem by agents located in some topological graph. The agents must visit all regions of interest but they also should stay connected to the base via multi-hop. We prove that the algorithmic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Tristan Charrier , François Schwarzentruber , Eva Soulier

In this paper, we study thetime-bounded reachability problem for rectangular hybrid automata with non-negative rates (RHA+). This problem was recently shown to be decidable [Brihaye et al, ICALP11] (even though the unbounded reachability…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-11-07 Thomas Brihaye , Laurent Doyen , Gilles Geeraerts , Joël Ouaknine , Jean-François Raskin , James Worrell

Software verification is a complex problem, and verification tools need significant tuning to achieve high performance. Due to this, many verifiers choose to specialize on reachability properties, or invest the time to implement known…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Dirk Beyer , Marek Jankola , Marian Lingsch-Rosenfeld , Tian Xia , Xiyue Zheng

Security properties of real-time systems often involve reasoning about hyper-properties, as opposed to properties of single executions or trees of executions. These hyper-properties need to additionally be expressive enough to reason about…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Nabarun Deka , Minjian Zhang , Rohit Chadha , Mahesh Viswanathan

The verification problem for neural networks is verifying whether a neural network will suffer from adversarial samples, or approximating the maximal allowed scale of adversarial perturbation that can be endured. While most prior work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Qinglong Wang , Kaixuan Zhang , Xue Liu , C. Lee Giles

Recent advances in the field of Business Process Management have brought about several suites able to model complex data objects along with the traditional control flow perspective. Nonetheless, when it comes to formal verification there is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Riccardo De Masellis , Chiara Di Francescomarino , Chiara Ghidini , Sergio Tessaris

We prove PSPACE-completeness of all but one problem in a large space of pulling-block problems where the goal is for the agent to reach a target destination. The problems are parameterized by whether pulling is optional, the number of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Hayashi Ani , Sualeh Asif , Erik D. Demaine , Jenny Diomidova , Dylan Hendrickson , Jayson Lynch , Sarah Scheffler , Adam Suhl

We present a novel approach for claim verification from tabular data documents. Recent LLM-based approaches either employ complex pretraining/fine-tuning or decompose verification into subtasks, often lacking comprehensive explanations and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Rudra Ranajee Saha , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan , Raymond T. Ng

Mechanism design is addressed in the context of fair allocations of indivisible goods with monetary compensation. Motivated by a real-world social choice problem, mechanisms with verification are considered in a setting where (i) agents'…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-18 Gianluigi Greco , Francesco Scarcello

We present efficient algorithms to reduce the size of nondeterministic B\"uchi word automata (NBA) and nondeterministic finite word automata (NFA), while retaining their languages. Additionally, we describe methods to solve PSPACE-complete…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Lorenzo Clemente , Richard Mayr

We reinvestigate known lower bounds for the Intersection Non-Emptiness Problem for Deterministic Finite Automata (DFA's). We first strengthen conditional time complexity lower bounds from T. Kasai and S. Iwata (1985) which showed that…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Michael Wehar

We study several decision problems for counter systems with guards defined by convex polyhedra and updates defined by affine transformations. In general, the reachability problem is undecidable for such systems. Decidability can be achieved…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Radu Iosif , Arnaud Sangnier

We address the safety verification and synthesis problems for real-time systems. We introduce real-time programs that are made of instructions that can perform assignments to discrete and real-valued variables. They are general enough to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Franck Cassez , Peter Gjøl Jensen , Kim Guldstrand Larsen

We present a framework for verifying Memoryful Neural Multi-Agent Systems (MN-MAS) against full Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) specifications. In MN-MAS, agents interact with a non-deterministic, partially observable environment. Examples of…

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