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We study the problem of generating a test sequence that achieves maximal coverage for a reactive system under test. We formulate the problem as a repeated game between the tester and the system, where the system state space is partitioned…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Luca de Alfaro , Rupak Majumdar

We consider the {\em Capacitated Domination} problem, which models a service-requirement assignment scenario and is also a generalization of the well-known {\em Dominating Set} problem. In this problem, given a graph with three parameters…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Mong-Jen Kao , Han-Lin Chen

The concept of space-bounded computability has become significantly important in handling vast data sets on memory-limited computing devices. To replenish the existing short list of NL-complete problems whose instance sizes are dictated by…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Tomoyuki Yamakami

We study cutoff results for parameterized verification and synthesis of guarded protocols, as introduced by Emerson and Kahlon (2000). Guarded protocols describe systems of processes whose transitions are enabled or disabled depending on…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Swen Jacobs , Mouhammad Sakr

Bertrand et al. introduced a model of parameterised systems, where each agent is represented by a finite state system, and studied the following control problem: for any number of agents, does there exist a controller able to bring all…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Thomas Colcombet , Nathanaël Fijalkow , Pierre Ohlmann

Population protocols are a distributed computation model in which a collection of anonymous, finite-state agents interact in randomly chosen pairs and update their states according to a fixed transition function. The computation is defined…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Michael Blondin , Michaël Cadilhac , Benjamin Courchesne , Lucie Guillou , Corto Mascle , Isa Vialard

Given a graph and two vertex sets satisfying a certain feasibility condition, a reconfiguration problem asks whether we can reach one vertex set from the other by repeating prescribed modification steps while maintaining feasibility. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Tatsuya Gima , Takehiro Ito , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yota Otachi

A population protocol describes a set of state change rules for a population of $n$ indistinguishable finite-state agents (automata), undergoing random pairwise interactions. Within this very basic framework, it is possible to resolve a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Adrian Kosowski , Przemysław Uznański

In a rendezvous task, some mobile agents dispersed in a network have to gather at an arbitrary common site. We consider the rendezvous problem on the infinite labeled line, with $2$ agents, without communication, and a synchronous notion of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yann Bourreau , Ananth Narayanan , Alexandre Nolin

We present a first theoretical analysis of the power of polynomial-time preprocessing for important combinatorial problems from various areas in AI. We consider problems from Constraint Satisfaction, Global Constraints, Satisfiability,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-06-13 Serge Gaspers , Stefan Szeider

We study the linearizability monitoring problem, which asks whether a given concurrent history of a data structure is equivalent to some sequential execution of the same data structure. In general, this problem is $\textsf{NP}$-hard, even…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Lee Zheng Han , Umang Mathur

Regular model checking is a technique for the verification of infinite-state systems whose configurations can be represented as finite words over a suitable alphabet. The form we are studying applies to systems whose set of initial…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Javier Esparza , Michael Raskin , Christoph Welzel-Mohr

Distributed systems have become increasingly prevalent in the software industry. Due to their intrinsic complexity, much research has focused on the verification of their behaviour. An active research line is around behaviour models that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Francisco Parrinha , João Mota , António Ravara

The increasing wireless communication capabilities of vehicles creates opportunities for more efficient intersection management strategies. One promising approach is the replacement of traffic lights with a system wherein vehicles run…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Kaya Alpturer , Joseph Y. Halpern , Ron van der Meyden

Two mobile agents starting at different nodes of an unknown network have to meet. This task is known in the literature as rendezvous. Each agent has a different label which is a positive integer known to it, but unknown to the other agent.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-24 Yoann Dieudonné , Andrzej Pelc , Vincent Villain

This paper studies the growing domain of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) problems. Motivated by scheduling problems arising in RPA, we study the parameterized complexity of the single-machine problem $1|\text{prec},r_j,d_j|*$. We focus on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Michal Dvořák , Antonín Novák , Přemysl Šůcha , Dušan Knop , Claire Hanen

Probabilistic bisimulation is a fundamental notion of process equivalence for probabilistic systems. Among others, it has important applications including formalizing the anonymity property of several communication protocols. There is a lot…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Chih-Duo Hong , Anthony W. Lin , Rupak Majumdar , Philipp Rümmer

Bounded context switching (BCS) is an under-approximate method for finding violations to safety properties in shared memory concurrent programs. Technically, BCS is a reachability problem that is known to be NP-complete. Our contribution is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Peter Chini , Jonathan Kolberg , Andreas Krebs , Roland Meyer , Prakash Saivasan

The state of many physical, biological and socio-technical systems evolves by combining smooth local transitions and abrupt resetting events to a set of reference values. The inclusion of the resetting mechanism not only provides the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-21 Oriol Artime

We consider parameterized verification problems for networks of timed automata (TAs) based on different communication primitives. To this end, we first consider disjunctive timed networks (DTNs), i.e., networks of TAs that communicate via…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Étienne André , Swen Jacobs , Shyam Lal Karra , Ocan Sankur