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Motivated by the success of bounded model checking framework for finite state machines, Ouaknine and Worrell proposed a time-bounded theory of real-time verification by claiming that restriction to bounded-time recovers decidability for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-08-18 Shankara Narayanan Krishna , Lakshmi Manasa , Ashutosh Trivedi

In [1], we introduced the weakly synchronizing languages for probabilistic automata. In this report, we show that the emptiness problem of weakly synchronizing languages for probabilistic automata is undecidable. This implies that the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-06 Laurent Doyen , Thierry Massart , Mahsa Shirmohammadi

The determinisation problem for min-plus (tropical) weighted automata was recently shown to be decidable. However, the proof is purely existential, relying on several non-constructive arguments. Our contribution in this work is twofold:…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Shaull Almagor , Guy Arbel , Sarai Sheinvald

In the present paper, we study the match test for extended regular expressions. We approach this NP-complete problem by introducing a novel variant of two-way multihead automata, which reveals that the complexity of the match test is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Daniel Reidenbach , Markus L. Schmid

This paper discusses the hardness of finding minimal good-for-games (GFG) Buchi, Co-Buchi, and parity automata with state based acceptance. The problem appears to sit between finding small deterministic and finding small nondeterministic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Sven Schewe

In this paper, we define the notion of {\em probabilistic $\omega$-pushdown automaton} and study its model-checking problem against the logic of $\omega$-probabilistic computational tree logic ($\omega$-PCTL) and its bounded version from a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Deren Lin , Tianrong Lin

We show that solving delay games with winning conditions given by deterministic and nondeterministic weak Muller automata is 2EXPTIME-complete respectively 3EXPTIME-complete. Furthermore, doubly and triply exponential lookahead is necessary…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Sarah Winter , Martin Zimmermann

A stochastic timed automaton is a purely stochastic process defined on a timed automaton, in which both delays and discrete choices are made randomly. We study the almost-sure model-checking problem for this model, that is, given a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Nathalie Bertrand , Patricia Bouyer , Thomas Brihaye , Quentin Menet , Christel Baier , Marcus Groesser , Marcin Jurdzinski

This paper is concerned with the computational complexity of equivalence and minimisation for automata with transition weights in the field Q of rational numbers. We use polynomial identity testing and the Isolation Lemma to obtain…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Stefan Kiefer , Andrzej Murawski , Joel Ouaknine , Bjoern Wachter , James Worrell

The article surveys some decidability results for DPDAs on infinite words (omega-DPDA). We summarize some recent results on the decidability of the regularity and the equivalence problem for the class of weak omega-DPDAs. Furthermore, we…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Christof Löding

We study three levels in a hierarchy of nondeterminism: A nondeterministic automaton $\mathcal{A}$ is determinizable by pruning (DBP) if we can obtain a deterministic automaton equivalent to $\mathcal{A}$ by removing some of its…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Bader Abu Radi , Orna Kupferman , Ofer Leshkowitz

The problem DFA-Intersection-Nonemptiness asks if a given number of deterministic automata accept a common word. In general, this problem is PSPACE-complete. Here, we investigate this problem for the subclasses of commutative automata and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Henning Fernau , Stefan Hoffmann , Michael Wehar

Promise problems were mainly studied in quantum automata theory. Here we focus on state complexity of classical automata for promise problems. First, it was known that there is a family of unary promise problems solvable by quantum automata…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-17 Viliam Geffert , Abuzer Yakaryilmaz

We propose a new abstract formalism for probabilistic timed systems, Parametric Interval Probabilistic Timed Automata, based on an extension of Parametric Timed Automata and Interval Markov Chains. In this context, we consider the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Étienne André , Benoît Delahaye , Paulin Fournier

In parametric lock-sharing systems processes can spawn new processes to run in parallel, and can create new locks. The behavior of every process is given by a pushdown automaton. We consider infinite behaviors of such systems under strong…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Corto Mascle , Anca Muscholl , Igor Walukiewicz

We study reachability games on recursive timed automata (RTA) that generalize Alur-Dill timed automata with recursive procedure invocation mechanism similar to recursive state machines. It is known that deciding the winner in reachability…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Shankara Narayanan Krishna , Lakshmi Manasa , Ashutosh Trivedi

We study a generalisation of B\"uchi-Landweber games to the timed setting. The winning condition is specified by a non-deterministic timed automaton with epsilon transitions and only Player I can elapse time. We show that for fixed number…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Lorenzo Clemente , Sławomir Lasota , Radosław Piórkowski

We study the following decision problem: is the language recognized by a quantum finite automaton empty or non-empty? We prove that this problem is decidable or undecidable depending on whether recognition is defined by strict or non-strict…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vincent D. Blondel , Emmanuel Jeandel , Pascal Koiran , Natacha Portier

Parity games are simple infinite games played on finite graphs with a winning condition that is expressive enough to capture nested least and greatest fixpoints. Through their tight relationship to the modal mu-calculus, they are used in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Tom van Dijk

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