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Multi-letter {\it quantum finite automata} (QFAs) were a quantum variant of classical {\it one-way multi-head finite automata} (J. Hromkovi\v{c}, Acta Informatica 19 (1983) 377-384), and it has been shown that this new one-way QFAs…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-01 Daowen Qiu , Xiangfu Zou , Lvzhou Li , Paulo Mateus

This paper presents a novel approach to learning from demonstration that enables robots to autonomously execute complex tasks in dynamic environments. We model latent tasks as probabilistic formal languages and introduce a tailored reactive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Kandai Watanabe , Nicholas Renninger , Sriram Sankaranarayanan , Morteza Lahijanian

A distributed protocol is typically modeled as a set of communicating processes, where each process is described as an extended state machine along with fairness assumptions, and its correctness is specified using safety and liveness…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Rajeev Alur , Mukund Raghothaman , Christos Stergiou , Stavros Tripakis , Abhishek Udupa

The theory of abstract argumentation frameworks (afs) has, in the main, focused on finite structures, though there are many significant contexts where argumentation can be regarded as a process involving infinite objects. To address this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Pietro Baroni , Federico Cerutti , Paul E. Dunne , Massimiliano Giacomin

This paper designs an efficient two-class pattern classifier utilizing asynchronous cellular automata (ACAs). The two-state three-neighborhood one-dimensional ACAs that converge to fixed points from arbitrary seeds are used here for pattern…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2016-02-01 Biswanath Sethi , Souvik Roy , Sukanta Das

Cognitive computation such as e.g. language processing, is conventionally regarded as Turing computation, and Turing machines can be uniquely implemented as nonlinear dynamical systems using generalized shifts and subsequent G\"odel…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Peter beim Graben , Roland Potthast

Nonuniform Deterministic Finite Automata (NUDFA) over monoids were invented by Barrington to study boundaries of nonuniform constant-memory computation. Later, results on these automata helped to indentify interesting classes of groups for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Paweł M. Idziak , Piotr Kawałek , Jacek Krzaczkowski

An automaton is synchronizing if there is a word that maps all states onto the same state. \v{C}ern\'{y}'s conjecture on the length of the shortest such word is probably the most famous open problem in automata theory. We consider the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Natalie C. Behague , J. Robert Johnson

We study synchronizing partial DFAs, which extend the classical concept of synchronizing complete DFAs and are a special case of synchronizing unambiguous NFAs. A partial DFA is called synchronizing if it has a word (called a \emph{reset…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Mikhail V. Berlinkov , Robert Ferens , Andrew Ryzhikov , Marek Szykuła

Cellular automata (CAs) are fully-discrete dynamical models that have received much attention due to the fact that their relatively simple setup can nonetheless express highly complex phenomena. Despite the model's theoretical maturity and…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2025-07-10 Michiel Rollier , Kallil M. C. Zielinski , Aisling J. Daly , Odemir M. Bruno , Jan M. Baetens

Threshold automata are a formalism for modeling and analyzing fault-tolerant distributed algorithms, recently introduced by Konnov, Veith, and Widder, describing protocols executed by a fixed but arbitrary number of processes. We conduct…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-02 A. R. Balasubramanian , Javier Esparza , Marijana Lazic

We consider the synthesis of deterministic tree transducers from automaton definable specifications, given as binary relations, over finite trees. We consider the case of specifications that are deterministic top-down tree automatic,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Christof Löding , Sarah Winter

Speculative data-parallel algorithms for language recognition have been widely experimented for various types of finite-state automata (FA), deterministic (DFA) and nondeterministic (NFA), often derived from regular expressions (RE). Such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Angelo Borsotti , Luca Breveglieri , Stefano Crespi Reghizzi , Angelo Morzenti

The usage of Rational Speech Acts (RSA) framework has been successful in building \emph{pragmatic} program synthesizers that return programs which, in addition to being logically consistent with user-generated examples, account for the fact…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yewen Pu , Saujas Vaduguru , Priyan Vaithilingam , Elena Glassman , Daniel Fried

This paper presents a new framework for asynchrony. This has its origins in our attempts to better harness the internal decision making process of cellular automata (CA). Thus, we show that a max-plus algebraic model of asynchrony arises…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-02-16 Ebrahim L. Patel , David Broomhead

Forest automata (FA) have recently been proposed as a tool for shape analysis of complex heap structures. FA encode sets of tree decompositions of heap graphs in the form of tuples of tree automata. In order to allow for representing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Lukas Holik , Ondrej Lengal , Adam Rogalewicz , Jiri Simacek , Tomas Vojnar

Real-world computers have operational constraints that cause nonzero entropy production (EP). In particular, almost all real-world computers are ``periodic'', iteratively undergoing the same physical process; and ``local", in that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-06 Thomas E. Ouldridge , David H. Wolpert

Specifying properties can be challenging work. In this paper, we propose an automated approach to exemplify properties given in the form of automata extended with timing constraints and timing parameters, and that can also encode…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Étienne André , Masaki Waga , Natsuki Urabe , Ichiro Hasuo

Timed automata are a common formalism for the verification of concurrent systems subject to timing constraints. They extend finite-state automata with clocks, that constrain the system behavior in locations, and to take transitions. While…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Johan Arcile , Étienne André

In the computational-mechanics structural analysis of one-dimensional cellular automata the following automata-theoretic analogue of the \emph{change-point problem} from time series analysis arises: \emph{Given a string $\sigma$ and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Carl S. McTague , James P. Crutchfield