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One of the most attractive features of untyped languages is the flexibility in term creation and manipulation. However, with such power comes the responsibility of ensuring the correctness of these operations. A solution is adding run-time…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Nataliia Stulova , José F. Morales , Manuel V. Hermenegildo

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

Recent vision-language models have strong perceptual ability but their implicit reasoning is hard to explain and easily generates hallucinations on complex queries. Compositional methods improve interpretability, but most rely on a single…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Zhixi Cai , Fucai Ke , Kevin Leo , Sukai Huang , Maria Garcia de la Banda , Peter J. Stuckey , Hamid Rezatofighi

The identification of deterministic finite automata (DFAs) from labeled examples is a cornerstone of automata learning, yet traditional methods focus on learning monolithic DFAs, which often yield a large DFA lacking simplicity and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Junjie Meng , Jie An , Yong Li , Andrea Turrini , Fanjiang Xu , Naijun Zhan , Miaomiao Zhang

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

This article presents a visualization tool for designing and debugging deterministic finite-state machines in FSM -- a domain specific language for the automata theory classroom. Like other automata visualization tools, users can edit…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Marco T. Morazán , Joshua M. Schappel , Sachin Mahashabde

A data language is a set of finite words defined on an infinite alphabet. Data languages are used to express properties associated with data values (domain defined over a countably infinite set). In this paper, we introduce set augmented…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Ansuman Banerjee , Kingshuk Chatterjee , Shibashis Guha

Visual navigation requires a whole range of capabilities. A crucial one of these is the ability of an agent to determine its own location and heading in an environment. Prior works commonly assume this information as given, or use methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Moritz Lange , Raphael C. Engelhardt , Wolfgang Konen , Laurenz Wiskott

Affine automata provide a finite-state computational model that preserves the linear-algebraic structure of quantum computation while operating entirely over the reals. Recent work has shown that affine automata can far surpass classical…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Zeyu Chen , Junde Wu

In this work we develop a fully automatic verification procedure of safety properties of Scade programs. We transform each such program into an SMT instance (Satisfiability Modulo Theories) and feed this to a solver. The goal is to have a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-03-13 Henning Basold

Verification problems of programs written in various paradigms (such as imperative, logic, concurrent, functional, and object-oriented ones) can be reduced to problems of solving Horn clause constraints on predicate variables that represent…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-10-24 Hiroshi Unno , Sho Torii

In systems verification we are often concerned with multiple, inter-dependent properties that a program must satisfy. To prove that a program satisfies a given property, the correctness of intermediate states of the program must be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Danielle Matichuk

Stateflow models are complex software models, often used as part of safety-critical software solutions designed with Matlab Simulink. They incorporate design principles that are typically very hard to verify formally. In particular, the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Predrag Filipovikj , Dilian Gurov , Mattias Nyberg

'Hybrid meta-heuristics' is one of the most interesting recent trends in the field of optimization and feature selection (FS). In this paper, we have proposed a binary variant of Atom Search Optimization (ASO) and its hybrid with Simulated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Kushal Kanti Ghosh , Ritam Guha , Soulib Ghosh , Suman Kumar Bera , Ram Sarkar

Programs with dynamic allocation are able to create and use an unbounded number of fresh resources, such as references, objects, files, etc. We propose History-Register Automata (HRA), a new automata-theoretic formalism for modelling such…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Radu Grigore , Nikos Tzevelekos

Stateflow models are complex software models, often used as part of industrial safety-critical software solutions designed with Matlab Simulink. Being part of safety-critical solutions, these models require the application of rigorous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Predrag Filipovikj , Gustav Ung , Dilian Gurov , Mattias Nyberg

Deep learning methods are successfully used in applications pertaining to ubiquitous computing, health, and well-being. Specifically, the area of human activity recognition (HAR) is primarily transformed by the convolutional and recurrent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Aaqib Saeed , Tanir Ozcelebi , Johan Lukkien

In the realm of sound object-oriented program analyses for information-flow control, very few approaches adopt flow-sensitive abstractions of the heap that enable a precise modeling of implicit flows. To tackle this challenge, we advance a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Nicolas Berthier , Narges Khakpour

Abstraction is an important aspect of intelligence which enables agents to construct robust representations for effective decision making. In the last decade, deep networks are proven to be effective due to their ability to form…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Alper Ahmetoglu , Emre Ugur , Minoru Asada , Erhan Oztop

The identification of a deterministic finite automaton (DFA) from labeled examples is a well-studied problem in the literature; however, prior work focuses on the identification of monolithic DFAs. Although monolithic DFAs provide accurate…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Niklas Lauffer , Beyazit Yalcinkaya , Marcell Vazquez-Chanlatte , Ameesh Shah , Sanjit A. Seshia