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We present counting reward automata-a finite state machine variant capable of modelling any reward function expressible as a formal language. Unlike previous approaches, which are limited to the expression of tasks as regular languages, our…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Tristan Bester , Benjamin Rosman , Steven James , Geraud Nangue Tasse

A turn in a computation of a pushdown automaton is a switch from a phase in which the height of the pushdown store increases to a phase in which it decreases. Given a pushdown or one-counter automaton, we consider, for each string in its…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Giovanni Pighizzini

Systems of deterministic finite automata communicating by sending their states upon request are investigated, when the amount of communication is restricted. The computational power and decidability properties are studied for the case of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Henning Bordihn , Martin Kutrib , Andreas Malcher

Quantum computing is a new model of computation, based on quantum physics. Quantum computers can be exponentially faster than conventional computers for problems such as factoring. Besides full-scale quantum computers, more restricted…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Andris Ambainis , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

This paper proposed a quantum analogue of classical queue automata by using the definition of the quantum Turing machine and quantum finite-state automata. However, quantum automata equipped with storage medium of a stack has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 Amandeep Singh Bhatia , Ajay Kumar

Automata over infinite objects are a well-established model with applications in logic and formal verification. Traditionally, acceptance in such automata is defined based on the set of states visited infinitely often during a run. However,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Antonio Casares

Recently there has been a significant effort to handle quantitative properties in formal verification and synthesis. While weighted automata over finite and infinite words provide a natural and flexible framework to express quantitative…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-24 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Thomas A. Henzinger , Jan Otop

We study alternating automata with qualitative semantics over infinite binary trees: alternation means that two opposing players construct a decoration of the input tree called a run, and the qualitative semantics says that a run of the…

We consider finite two-way automata and measure the use of two-way motion by counting the number of left moves in accepting computations. Restriction of the automata according to this measure allows us to study in detail the use of two-way…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-23 David Damanik

Limit-average automata are weighted automata on infinite words that use average to aggregate the weights seen in infinite runs. We study approximate learning problems for limit-average automata in two settings: passive and active. In the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Jakub Michaliszyn , Jan Otop

We introduce and study input-driven deterministic and nondeterministic double-head pushdown automata. A double-head pushdown automaton is a slight generalization of an ordinary pushdown automaton working with two input heads that move in…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Markus Holzer , Martin Kutrib , Andreas Malcher , Matthias Wendlandt

The theory of computation is based on abstract computing automata which can be classified into a three-class hierarchy: Finite Automata (FA), Push-down Automata (PDA) and the Turing Machines (TM). Each class corresponds to grammar/language…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Marta Duenas-Diez , Juan Perez-Mercader

We investigate a dynamical complexity measure defined for finite automata with translucent letters (FAwtl). Roughly, this measure counts the minimal number of necessary jumps for such an automaton in order to accept an input. The model…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Szilárd Zsolt Fazekas , Victor Mitrana , Andrei Păun , Mihaela Păun

In this paper, we propose two new nonblocking properties of automata as quantitative measures of maximal distances to marker states. The first property, called {\em quantitative nonblockingness}, captures the practical requirement that at…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Renyuan Zhang , Jiahao Wang , Zenghui Wang , Kai Cai

Quantum finite automata (QFAs) have been extensively studied in the literature. In this paper, we define and systematically study quantum B\"uchi automata (QBAs) over infinite words to model the long-term behavior of quantum systems, which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Qisheng Wang , Mingsheng Ying

A quantitative word automaton (QWA) defines a function from infinite words to values. For example, every infinite run of a limit-average QWA A obtains a mean payoff, and every word w is assigned the maximal mean payoff obtained by…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Thomas A. Henzinger , Pavol Kebis , Nicolas Mazzocchi , N. Ege Saraç

The languages of infinite timed words accepted by timed automata are traditionally defined using Buchi-like conditions. These acceptance conditions focus on the set of locations visited infinitely often along a run, but completely ignore…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-12 Nathalie Bertrand , Patricia Bouyer , Thomas Brihaye , Amelie Stainer

There are many types of automata and grammar models that have been studied in the literature, and for these models, it is common to determine whether certain problems are decidable. One problem that has been difficult to answer throughout…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Oscar H. Ibarra , Ian McQuillan

We define a quantum computational model over infinite words, called Measure-Many Quantum B\"uchi Automata (MMQBA), which extends Measure-many Quantum Finite automata (MMQFA) to the infinite word setting with B\"uchi acceptance condition. In…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Abhisek Midya , A Baskar

We present the first study of non-deterministic weighted automata under probabilistic semantics. In this semantics words are random events, generated by a Markov chain, and functions computed by weighted automata are random variables. We…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Jakub Michaliszyn , Jan Otop