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Stochastic automata over monoids as input sets are studied. The well-definedness of these automata requires an extension postulate that replaces the inherent universal property of free monoids. As a generalization of Turakainen's result, it…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Karl-Heinz Zimmermann , Merve Nur Cakir

We introduce a novel technique to analyse unambiguous B\"uchi automata quantitatively, and apply this to the model checking problem. It is based on linear-algebra arguments that originate from the analysis of matrix semigroups with constant…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Stefan Kiefer , Cas Widdershoven

We consider the state-minimisation problem for weighted and probabilistic automata. We provide a numerically stable polynomial-time minimisation algorithm for weighted automata, with guaranteed bounds on the numerical error when run with…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-02 Stefan Kiefer , Björn Wachter

The problem of k-minimisation for a DFA M is the computation of a smallest DFA N (where the size |M| of a DFA M is the size of the domain of the transition function) such that their recognized languages differ only on words of length less…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-01 Paweł Gawrychowski , Artur Jeż , Andreas Maletti

We present the first polynomial time algorithm to learn nontrivial classes of languages of infinite trees. Specifically, our algorithm uses membership and equivalence queries to learn classes of $\omega$-tree languages derived from weak…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Dana Angluin , Timos Antonopoulos , Dana Fisman

The value 1 problem is a decision problem for probabilistic automata over finite words: given a probabilistic automaton A, are there words accepted by A with probability arbitrarily close to 1? This problem was proved undecidable recently.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-27 Nathanaël Fijalkow , Hugo Gimbert , Youssouf Oualhadj

We generalize some of the central results in automata theory to the abstraction level of coalgebras and thus lay out the foundations of a universal theory of automata operating on infinite objects. Let F be any set functor that preserves…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 C. Kupke , Y. Venema

Algorithms which learn environments represented by automata in the past have had complexity scaling with the number of states in the automaton, which can be exponentially large even for automata recognizing regular expressions with a small…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Ali Cataltepe , Vanessa Kosoy

Model checking timed automata becomes increasingly complex with the increase in the number of clocks. Hence it is desirable that one constructs an automaton with the minimum number of clocks possible. The problem of checking whether there…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-21 Shibashis Guha , Chinmay Narayan , S. Arun-Kumar

Partially ordered automata are automata where the transition relation induces a partial order on states. The expressive power of partially ordered automata is closely related to the expressivity of fragments of first-order logic on finite…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Tomáš Masopust , Markus Krötzsch

We prove that language equivalence of deterministic one-counter automata is NL-complete. This improves the superpolynomial time complexity upper bound shown by Valiant and Paterson in 1975. Our main contribution is to prove that two…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-11 Stanislav Böhm , Stefan Göller , Petr Jančar

We introduce an automata model for data words, that is words that carry at each position a symbol from a finite alphabet and a value from an unbounded data domain. The model is (semantically) a restriction of data automata, introduced by…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Ahmet Kara , Thomas Schwentick , Tony Tan

Symbolic automata are finite state automata that support potentially infinite alphabets, such as the set of rational numbers, generally applied to regular expressions/languages over finite words. In symbolic automata (or automata modulo…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Margus Veanes , Thomas Ball , Gabriel Ebner , Olli Saarikivi

We investigate hyper-minimization for deterministic register automata (DRAs). We begin by introducing DRA counterparts of classical notions from deterministic finite automata. Building on these foundations, we present an algorithm for…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Yong Li , Qiyi Tang , Di-De Yen

We study the strength of axioms needed to prove various results related to automata on infinite words and B\"uchi's theorem on the decidability of the MSO theory of $(N, {\le})$. We prove that the following are equivalent over the weak…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Leszek Kołodziejczyk , Henryk Michalewski , Cécilia Pradic , Michał Skrzypczak

An automaton is history-deterministic if its nondeterminism can be resolved on the fly, only using the prefix of the word read so far. This mild form of nondeterminism has attracted particular attention for its applications in synthesis…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Udi Boker , Thomas A. Henzinger , Karoliina Lehtinen , Keya Prakash

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

Automata expressiveness is an essential feature in understanding which of the formalisms available should be chosen for modelling a particular problem. Probabilistic and stochastic automata are suitable for modelling systems exhibiting…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Valentin Bura , Tim French , Mark Reynolds

There are various types of disability egress in world like blindness, deafness, and Physical disabilities. It is quite difficult to deal with people with disability. Learning disability (LD) is types of disability totally different from…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Syed Asif Ali , Safeeullah Soomro , Abdul Ghafoor Memon , Abdul Baqi

Our main technical contribution is a polynomial-time determinisation procedure for history-deterministic B\"uchi automata, which settles an open question of Kuperberg and Skrzypczak, 2015. A key conceptual contribution is the lookahead…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Rohan Acharya , Marcin Jurdziński , Keya Prakash