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We introduce the notion of adaptive synchronisation for pushdown automata, in which there is an external observer who has no knowledge about the current state of the pushdown automaton, but can observe the contents of the stack. The…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 A. R. Balasubramanian , K. S. Thejaswini

We consider the problem of determining the existence of a sequence of matrices driving a discrete-time consensus system to consensus. We transform this problem into one of the existence of a product of the transition (stochastic) matrices…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-05 Pierre-Yves Chevalier , Julien M. Hendrickx , Raphaël M. Jungers

We introduce the model of communicating timed automata (CTA) that extends the classical models of finite-state processes communicating through FIFO perfect channels and timed automata, in the sense that the finite-state processes are…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Parosh Aziz Abdulla , Mohamed Faouzi Atig , S. Krishna

Scheduling on related machines ($Q||C_{\max}$) is one of the most important problems in the field of Algorithmic Mechanism Design. Each machine is controlled by a selfish agent and her valuation can be expressed via a single parameter, her…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-20 George Christodoulou , Annamaria Kovacs

A recent result of Haase et al. has shown that reachability in two-clock timed automata is log-space equivalent to reachability in bounded one-counter automata. We show that reachability in bounded one-counter automata is PSPACE-complete.

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-15 John Fearnley , Marcin Jurdziński

This paper presents two complementary frameworks to optimize Formula 1 race strategies, jointly accounting for energy allocation, tire wear and pit stop timing. First, the race scenario is modeled using lap time maps and a dynamic tire wear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-29 Giona Fieni , Joschua Wüthrich , Marc-Philippe Neumann , Mohammad M. Moradi , Christopher H. Onder

We introduce a logic to express structural properties of automata with string inputs and, possibly, outputs in some monoid. In this logic, the set of predicates talking about the output values is parametric, and we provide sufficient…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Emmanuel Filiot , Nicolas Mazzocchi , Jean-François Raskin

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

Specifying tasks for robotic systems traditionally requires coding expertise, deep domain knowledge, and significant time investment. While learning from demonstration offers a promising alternative, existing methods often struggle with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Mattijs Baert , Sam Leroux , Pieter Simoens

This paper studies active automata learning (AAL) in the presence of stochastic delays. We consider Mealy machines that have stochastic delays associated with each transition and explore how the learner can efficiently arrive at faithful…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Gabriel Dengler , Sven Apel , Holger Hermanns

We present a type system for an extension of lambda calculus with a conditional construction, named STAB, that characterizes the PSPACE class. This system is obtained by extending STA, a type assignment for lambda-calculus inspired by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-06-02 Marco Gaboardi , Jean-Yves Marion , Simona Ronchi Della Rocca

In this paper, we consider the robot motion (or task) planning problem under some given time bounded high level specifications. We use metric interval temporal logic (MITL), a member of the temporal logic family, to represent the task…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Yuchen Zhou , Dipankar Maity , John S. Baras

Autonomous racing represents a uniquely challenging control environment where agents must act while on the limits of a vehicle's capability in order to set competitive lap times. This places the agent on a knife's edge, with a very small…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Matthew Howe , James Bockman , Adrian Orenstein , Stefan Podgorski , Sam Bahrami , Ian Reid

Algorithms which learn environments represented by automata in the past have had complexity scaling with the number of states in the automaton, which can be exponentially large even for automata recognizing regular expressions with a small…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Ali Cataltepe , Vanessa Kosoy

This paper is about reachability analysis in a restricted subclass of multi-pushdown automata. We assume that the control states of an automaton are partially ordered, and all transitions of an automaton go downwards with respect to the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Wojciech Czerwiński , Piotr Hofman , SŁawomir Lasota

The problem of scheduling with testing in the framework of explorable uncertainty models environments where some preliminary action can influence the duration of a task. In the model, each job has an unknown processing time that can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Susanne Albers , Alexander Eckl

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

The problem of inclusion of the language accepted by timed automaton $A$ (e.g., the implementation) in the language accepted by $B$ (e.g., the specification) is, in general, undecidable in the class of non-deterministic timed automata. In…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Amnon Rosenmann

We consider a class of infinite-state stochastic games generated by stateless pushdown automata (or, equivalently, 1-exit recursive state machines), where the winning objective is specified by a regular set of target configurations and a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-11 Tomáš Brázdil , Václav Brožek , Antonín Kučera , Jan Obdržálek

Timed automata (TAs) are a widely used formalism to specify systems having temporal requirements. However, exactly specifying the system may be difficult, as the user may not know the exact clock constraints triggering state transitions. In…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Étienne André , Paolo Arcaini , Angelo Gargantini , Marco Radavelli