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Multi-agent simulations are versatile tools for exploring interactions among natural and artificial agents, but their development typically demands domain expertise and manual effort. This work introduces the Generative Agents for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Agnieszka Mensfelt , Kostas Stathis , Vince Trencsenyi

Automata play important roles in wide area of computing and the growth of multicores calls for their efficient parallel implementation. Though it is known in theory that we can perform the computation of a finite automaton in parallel by…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Ryoma Sin'ya , Kiminori Matsuzaki , Masataka Sassa

Indexed languages are a classical notion in formal language theory, which has attracted attention in recent decades due to its role in higher-order model checking: They are precisely the languages accepted by order-2 pushdown automata. The…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Richard Mandel , Corto Mascle , Georg Zetzsche

Automated theorem provers (ATPs) can disprove conjectures by saturating a set of clauses, but the resulting saturated sets are opaque certificates. In the unit equational fragment, a saturated set can in fact be read as a convergent rewrite…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Mikoláš Janota , Michael Rawson , Stephan Schulz

We study alternating parity good-for-games (GFG) automata, i.e., alternating parity automata where both conjunctive and disjunctive choices can be resolved in an online manner, without knowledge of the suffix of the input word still to be…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Udi Boker , Denis Kuperberg , Karoliina Lehtinen , Michał Skrzypczak

Active learning of finite automata has been vigorously pursued for the purposes of analysis and explanation of black-box systems. In this paper, we study an L*-style learning algorithm for weighted automata over the max-plus semiring. The…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Takamasa Okudono , Masaki Waga , Taro Sekiyama , Ichiro Hasuo

We present a first-order theorem proving framework for establishing the correctness of functional programs implementing sorting algorithms with recursive data structures. We formalize the semantics of recursive programs in many-sorted…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Pamina Georgiou , Márton Hajdu , Laura Kovács

We study two-player games played on the infinite graph of sentential forms induced by a context-free grammar (that comes with an ownership partitioning of the non-terminals). The winning condition is inclusion of the derived terminal word…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-02 Lukáš Holík , Roland Meyer , Sebastian Muskalla

Stochastic automata over monoids as input sets are studied. The well-definedness of these automata requires an extension postulate that replaces the inherent universal property of free monoids. As a generalization of Turakainen's result, it…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Karl-Heinz Zimmermann , Merve Nur Cakir

We introduce a novel automata model, called pebble-intervals automata (PIA), and study its power and closure properties. PIAs are tailored for a decidable fragment of FO that is important for reasoning about structures that use data values…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Nadia Labai , Tomer Kotek , Magdalena Ortiz , Helmut Veith

A process algebra is proposed, whose semantics maps a term to a nondeterministic finite automaton (NFA, for short). We prove a representability theorem: for each NFA $N$, there exists a process algebraic term $p$ such that its semantics is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Roberto Gorrieri

We study the existence of positional strategies for the protagonist in infinite duration games over arbitrary game graphs. We prove that prefix-independent objectives in $\Sigma_0^2$ which are positional and admit a (strongly) neutral…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Pierre Ohlmann , Michał Skrzypczak

Axioms are presented which encapsulate the properties satisfied by categories of games which form the basis of results on full abstraction for PCF and other programming languages, and on full completeness for various logics and type…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Samson Abramsky

An agent trained within a closed system can master any desired capability, as long as the following three conditions hold: (a) it receives sufficiently informative and aligned feedback, (b) its coverage of experience/data is broad enough,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Tom Schaul

Probabilistic B\"uchi Automata (PBA) are randomized, finite state automata that process input strings of infinite length. Based on the threshold chosen for the acceptance probability, different classes of languages can be defined. In this…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Rohit Chadha , A. Prasad Sistla , Mahesh Viswanathan

Equality saturation is a powerful technique for program optimization. Contextual equality saturation extends this to support rewrite rules that are conditioned on where a term appears in an expression. Existing work has brought contextual…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Tyler Hou , Shadaj Laddad , Joseph M. Hellerstein

Inspired by distributed algorithms, we introduce a new class of finite graph automata that recognize precisely the graph languages definable in monadic second-order logic. For the cases of words and trees, it has been long known that the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-28 Fabian Reiter

Symbolic Finite Automata and Register Automata are two orthogonal extensions of finite automata motivated by real-world problems where data may have unbounded domains. These automata address a demand for a model over large or infinite…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Loris D'Antoni , Tiago Ferreira , Matteo Sammartino , Alexandra Silva

We study textual autocomplete---the task of predicting a full sentence from a partial sentence---as a human-machine communication game. Specifically, we consider three competing goals for effective communication: use as few tokens as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Mina Lee , Tatsunori B. Hashimoto , Percy Liang

The class of omega-regular languages provides a robust specification language in verification. Every omega-regular condition can be decomposed into a safety part and a liveness part. The liveness part ensures that something good happens…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-03 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Nathanaël Fijalkow