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In this paper, we define the class of hourglass automata, which are timed automata with bounded clocks that can be made to progress backwards as well as forwards at a constant rate. We then introduce a new clock update for timed automata…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Yuki Osada , Tim French , Mark Reynolds , Harry Smallbone

We study the existence of automatic presentations for various algebraic structures. An automatic presentation of a structure is a description of the universe of the structure by a regular set of words, and the interpretation of the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Bakhadyr Khoussainov , Andre Nies , Sasha Rubin , Frank Stephan

We describe an algebra for composing automata which includes both classical and quantum entities and their communications. We illustrate by describing in detail a quantum protocol.

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-01-30 L. de Francesco Albasini , N. Sabadini , R. F. C. Walters

In the paper we develop the $p$-adic theory of discrete automata. Every automaton $\mathfrak A$ (transducer) whose input/output alphabets consist of $p$ symbols can be associated to a continuous (in fact, 1-Lipschitz) map from $p$-adic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-10 Vladimir Anashin

An interleaving sequence is obtained by combining or intertwining elements from two or more sequences. On the other hand, cellular automata are known to be generators for keystream sequences. In this paper we present two families of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Sara D. Cardell

Automatic sequences have many properties that other sequences (in particular, non-uniformly morphic sequences) do not necessarily share. In this paper we survey a number of different methods that can be used to prove that a given sequence…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-28 J. -P. Allouche , J. Shallit , R. Yassawi

Finite automata were used to determine multiple addresses in number systems and to find topological properties of self-affine tiles and finite type fractals. We join these two lines of research by axiomatically defining automata which…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Christoph Bandt

The theory of abstract argumentation frameworks (afs) has, in the main, focused on finite structures, though there are many significant contexts where argumentation can be regarded as a process involving infinite objects. To address this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Pietro Baroni , Federico Cerutti , Paul E. Dunne , Massimiliano Giacomin

Sets with atoms serve as an alternative to ZFC foundations for mathematics, where some infinite, though highly symmetric sets, behave in a finitistic way. Therefore, one can try to carry over analysis of the classical algorithms from finite…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Michał R. Przybyłek

In this paper, we prove that a class of regular sequences can be viewed as projections of fixed points of uniform morphisms on a countable alphabet, and also can be generated by countable states automata. Moreover, we prove that the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Jie-Meng Zhang , Jin Chen , Yingjun Guo , Zhixiong Wen

We study Parikh automata on finite and infinite words. First we establish some results for Parikh automata on finite words. Following, we present several definitions of Parikh automata on infinite words. We consider the deterministic as…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Mario Grobler , Leif Sabellek , Sebastian Siebertz

The equivalence of finite automata and regular expressions dates back to the seminal paper of Kleene on events in nerve nets and finite automata from 1956. In the present paper we tour a fragment of the literature and summarize results on…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Hermann Gruber , Markus Holzer

This paper describes a construction of supermartingales realized as automatic functions. A capital of supermartingales is represented using automatic capital groups~(ACG). Properties of these automatic supermartingales are then studied.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Birzhan Moldagaliyev

The notion of transducer integer sequences is considered through a series of examples. By definition, transducer integer sequences are integer sequences produced, under a suitable interpretation, by finite automata encoding tree morphisms…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Zoran Sunic

We investigate the number of sets of words that can be formed from a finite alphabet, counted by the total length of the words in the set. An explicit expression for the counting sequence is derived from the generating function, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-01-26 Stefan Gerhold

This paper deals with (finite or infinite) sequences of arbitrary independent events in some probability space. We find sharp lower bounds for the probability of a union of such events when the sum of their probabilities is given. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-29 Jürgen Grahl , Shahar Nevo

We examine inkdots placed on the input string as a way of providing advice to finite automata, and establish the relations between this model and the previously studied models of advised finite automata. The existence of an infinite…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Uğur Küçük , A. C. Cem Say , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

Finite automata (FA) are a fundamental computational abstraction that is widely used in practice for various tasks in computer science, linguistics, biology, electrical engineering, and artificial intelligence. Given an input word, an FA…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Jaime Cuartas Granada , Alexey Ignatiev , Peter J. Stuckey

A register automaton is a finite automaton with finitely many registers ranging from an infinite alphabet. Since the valuations of registers are infinite, there are infinitely many configurations. We describe a technique to classify…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-28 Yu-Fang Chen , Bow-Yaw Wang , Di-De Yen

Given a right-infinite word $\bf x$ over a finite alphabet $A$, the rank of $\bf x$ is the size of the smallest set $S$ of words over $A$ such that $\bf x$ can be realized as an infinite concatenation of words in $S$. We show that the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Jason Bell , Jeffrey Shallit