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Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that capture intensity changes asynchronously with distinct advantages, such as high temporal resolution. Existing methods for event-based object/action recognition predominantly sample and convert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jiazhou Zhou , Kanghao Chen , Lei Zhang , Lin Wang

In this paper, we consider labeled finite-state automata (LFSAs), extend some state estimation-based properties from a single agent to a finite ordered set of agents. We also extend the notion of observer to \emph{high-order observer} using…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Kuize Zhang , Xiaoguang Han , Alessandro Giua , Carla Seatzu

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

Complex Event Recognition and Forecasting (CER/F) techniques attempt to detect, or even forecast ahead of time, event occurrences in streaming input using predefined event patterns. Such patterns are not always known in advance, or they…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Nikos Katzouris , Georgios Paliouras

Information leakage can have dramatic consequences on systems security. Among harmful information leaks, the timing information leakage is the ability for an attacker to deduce internal information depending on the system execution time. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Étienne André , Jun Sun

Event-Driven Particle Dynamics is a fast and precise method to simulate particulate systems of all scales. In this work it is demonstrated that, despite the high accuracy of the method, the finite machine precision leads to simulations…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-05-23 Marcus N. Bannerman , Severin Strobl , Arno Formella , Thorsten Poeschel

We introduce a new class of Parametric Timed Automata (PTAs) where we allow clocks to be compared to parameters in guards, as in classic PTAs, but also to be updated to parameters. We focus here on the EF-emptiness problem: "is the set of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Étienne André , Didier Lime , Mathias Ramparison

Current evaluation methods for autonomous driving prediction models rely heavily on simplistic metrics such as Average Displacement Error (ADE) and Final Displacement Error (FDE). While these metrics offer basic performance assessments,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Feifei Liu , Haozhe Wang , Zejun Wei , Qirong Lu , Yiyang Wen , Xiaoyu Tang , Jingyan Jiang , Zhijian He

This paper presents a mathematical framework for characterizing state blocking in discrete event systems (DES) under transition deletions. We introduce a path-based analysis approach that determines whether systems maintain non-blocking…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Md Nur-A-Adam Dony

Opacity is a security property formalizing the information leakage of a system to an external observer, namely intruder. The conventional opacity that has been studied in the Discrete Event System (DES) literature usually assumes passive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Alireza Partovi , Taeho Jung , Lin Hai

We propose a concise function representation based on deterministic finite state automata for exact most probable explanation and constrained optimization tasks in graphical models. We then exploit our concise representation within Bucket…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Filippo Bistaffa

The advent of event-based cameras, with their low latency, high dynamic range, and reduced power consumption, marked a turning point in machine perception and robotic vision. In~particular, the combination of these neuromorphic sensors with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Nafiseh Jabbari Tofighi , Maxime Robic , Fabio Morbidi , Pascal Vasseur

Fuzzy {\it discrete event systems} (DESs) were proposed recently by Lin and Ying [19], which may better cope with the real-world problems with fuzziness, impreciseness, and subjectivity such as those in biomedicine. As a continuation of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Daowen Qiu

Data-driven modeling of dynamical systems often faces numerous data-related challenges. A fundamental requirement is the existence of a unique set of parameters for a chosen model structure, an issue commonly referred to as identifiability.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Arthur N. Montanari , François Lamoline , Robert Bereza , Jorge Gonçalves

Inspired by privacy problems where the behavior of a system should not be revealed to an external curious observer, we investigate event concealment and concealability enforcement in discrete event systems modeled as non-deterministic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Wei Duan , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Zhiwu Li

Opacity, as an important property in information-flow security, characterizes the ability of a system to keep some secret information from an intruder. In discrete-event systems, based on a standard setting in which an intruder has the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Xiaoguang Han , Kuize Zhang , Jiahui Zhang , Zhiwu Li , Zengqiang Chen

In this paper, we investigate a class of information-flow security properties called opacity in partial-observed discrete-event systems. Roughly speaking, a system is said to be opaque if the intruder, which is modeled by a passive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Bohan Cui , Xiang Yin , Shaoyuan Li , Alessandro Giua

Attacks, including the manipulation of sensor readings and the modification of actuator commands, pose a significant challenge to the security and privacy of automated systems. This paper considers discrete event systems that can be modeled…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Xiaoyan Li , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

Probabilistic timed automata (PTAs) are timed automata (TAs) extended with discrete probability distributions.They serve as a mathematical model for a wide range of applications that involve both stochastic and timed behaviours. In this…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Hongfei Fu , Yi Li , Jianlin Li , Lijun Zhang

We present a formal and constructive theory showing that probabilistic finite automata (PFAs) can be exactly simulated using symbolic feedforward neural networks. Our architecture represents state distributions as vectors and transitions as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Sahil Rajesh Dhayalkar