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We present efficient algorithms to reduce the size of nondeterministic B\"uchi word automata (NBA) and nondeterministic finite word automata (NFA), while retaining their languages. Additionally, we describe methods to solve PSPACE-complete…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Lorenzo Clemente , Richard Mayr

We define a class of languages of infinite words over infinite alphabets, and the corresponding automata. The automata used for recognition are a generalisation of deterministic Muller automata to the setting of nominal sets. Remarkably,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-16 Vincenzo Ciancia , Matteo Sammartino

Parametric timed automata extend the standard timed automata with the possibility to use parameters in the clock guards. In general, if the parameters are real-valued, the problem of language emptiness of such automata is undecidable even…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Nikola Beneš , Peter Bezděk , Kim G. Larsen , Jiří Srba

In this work, we study properties of deterministic finite-state automata with timers, a subclass of timed automata proposed by Vaandrager et al. as a candidate for an efficiently learnable timed model. We first study the complexity of the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Véronique Bruyère , Guillermo A. Pérez , Gaëtan Staquet , Frits W. Vaandrager

Data automata on data words is a decidable model proposed by Boja\'nczyk et al. in 2006. Class automata, introduced recently by Boja\'nczyk and Lasota, is an extension of data automata which unifies different automata models on data words.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-08 Zhilin Wu

The problem of inclusion of the language accepted by timed automaton $A$ (e.g., the implementation) in the language accepted by $B$ (e.g., the specification) is, in general, undecidable in the class of non-deterministic timed automata. In…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Amnon Rosenmann

We study alternating good-for-games (GFG) automata, i.e., alternating 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 read. We show…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Udi Boker , Denis Kuperberg , Karoliina Lehtinen , Michał Skrzypczak

Here we propose an extension of the (deterministic and the nondeterministic) finite automaton with translucent letters (DFAwtl and NFAwtl), which lies between these automata and their non-returning variants (that is, the nr-DFAwtl and the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-12 František Mráz , Friedrich Otto

Subzero automata is a class of tree automata whose acceptance condition can express probabilistic constraints. Our main result is that the problem of determining if a subzero automaton accepts some regular tree is decidable.

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-12 Henryk Michalewski , Matteo Mio , Mikołaj Bojańczyk

We solve some decision problems for timed automata which were recently raised by S. Tripakis in [ Folk Theorems on the Determinization and Minimization of Timed Automata, in the Proceedings of the International Workshop FORMATS'2003, LNCS,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-12-11 Olivier Finkel

We present a method to prove the decidability of provability in several well-known inference systems. This method generalizes both cut-elimination and the construction of an automaton recognizing the provable propositions.

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-01-08 Gilles Dowek , Ying Jiang

We consider the value 1 problem for probabilistic automata over finite words: it asks whether a given probabilistic automaton accepts words with probability arbitrarily close to 1. This problem is known to be undecidable. However, different…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Nathanaël Fijalkow

Affine finite automata (AfA) can be more succinct than probabilistic and quantum finite automata when recognizing some regular languages with bounded-error. In this paper, we improve previously known constructions given for the succinctness…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

We consider the model of history-deterministic one-counter nets (OCNs). History-determinism is a property of transition systems that allows for a limited kind of non-determinism which can be resolved 'on-the-fly'. Token games, which have…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Keya Prakash , K. S. Thejaswini

A data tree is an unranked ordered tree whose every node is labelled by a letter from a finite alphabet and an element ("datum") from an infinite set, where the latter can only be compared for equality. The article considers alternating…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-06-15 Marcin Jurdzinski , Ranko Lazic

We study the termination problem for nondeterministic recursive probabilistic programs. First, we show that a ranking-supermartingales-based approach is both sound and complete for bounded terminiation (i.e., bounded expected termination…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Hongfei Fu

Deterministic one-way time-bounded multi-counter automata are studied with respect to their ability to perform reversible computations, which means that the automata are also backward deterministic and, thus, are able to uniquely step the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Martin Kutrib , Andreas Malcher

While many applications of automata in formal methods can use nondeterministic automata, some applications, most notably synthesis, need deterministic or good-for-games (GFG) automata. The latter are nondeterministic automata that can…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Bader Abu Radi , Orna Kupferman

Probabilistic timed automata are classical timed automata extended with discrete probability distributions over edges. We introduce clock-dependent probabilistic timed automata, a variant of probabilistic timed automata in which transition…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Jeremy Sproston

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…

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