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Two new classes of finite automata, called General hexagonal Boustrophedon finite automata and General hexagonal returning finite automata operating on hexagonal grids, are introduced and analyzed. The work establishes the theoretical…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Deepalakshmi D , Lisa Mathew

We investigate the decidability of the emptiness problem for three classes of distributed automata. These devices operate on finite directed graphs, acting as networks of identical finite-state machines that communicate in an infinite…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Antti Kuusisto , Fabian Reiter

We investigate the worst-case state complexity of reversals of deterministic finite automata with output (DFAOs). In these automata, each state is assigned some output value, rather than simply being labelled final or non-final. This…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Sylvie Davies

The classical subset construction for non-deterministic automata can be generalized to other side-effects captured by a monad. The key insight is that both the state space of the determinized automaton and its semantics---languages over an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Gerco van Heerdt , Joshua Moerman , Matteo Sammartino , Alexandra Silva

We present a translation from linear temporal logic with past to deterministic Rabin automata. The translation is direct in the sense that it does not rely on intermediate non-deterministic automata, and asymptotically optimal, resulting in…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Shaun Azzopardi , David Lidell , Nir Piterman

Cellular automata are one-dimensional arrays of interconnected interacting finite automata. We investigate one of the weakest classes, the real-time one-way cellular automata, and impose an additional restriction on their inter-cell…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-30 Martin Kutrib , Andreas Malcher

In a reversible language, any forward computation can be undone by a finite sequence of backward steps. Reversible computing has been studied in the context of different programming languages and formalisms, where it has been used for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Ivan Lanese , Naoki Nishida , Adrián Palacios , Germán Vidal

A new discontinuous model of computation called one-way jumping finite automata was defined by H. Chigahara et. al. This model was a restricted version of the model jumping finite automata. These automata read an input symbol-by-symbol and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Ujjwal Kumar Mishra , Kalpana Mahalingam , Rama Raghavan

Traditionally, finite automata theory has been used as a framework for the representation of possibly infinite sets of strings. In this work, we introduce the notion of second-order finite automata, a formalism that combines finite automata…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Alexsander Andrade de Melo , Mateus de Oliveira Oliveira

Unambiguous B\"uchi automata, i.e. B\"uchi automata allowing only one accepting run per word, are a useful restriction of B\"uchi automata that is well-suited for probabilistic model-checking. In this paper we propose a more permissive…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Christof Löding , Anton Pirogov

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

We investigate the language classes recognized by group automata over matrix groups. We present a summary of the results obtained so far together with a number of new results. We look at the computational power of time-bounded group…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-05 Özlem Salehi , Flavio D'Alessandro , A. C. Cem Say

We prove the equivalence of two classes of counter machines and one class of distributed automata. Our counter machines operate on finite words, which they read from left to right while incrementing or decrementing a fixed number of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Olivier Carton , Bruno Guillon , Fabian Reiter

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

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

We generalize the concept of synchronizing words for finite automata, which map all states of the automata to the same state, to deterministic visibly push-down automata. Here, a synchronizing word w does not only map all states to the same…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Henning Fernau , Petra Wolf

In this paper, we show the all final subclass of two-way Watson-Crick automata have the same computational power as the classical two-way Watson-Crick automata. Here we compare the computational power of two-way Watson-Crick automata and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Debayan Ganguly , Kingshuk Chatterjee , Kumar Sankar Ray

Each step that results in a bit of information being ``forgotten'' by a computing device has an intrinsic energy cost. Although any Turing machine can be rewritten to be thermodynamically reversible without changing the recognized language,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Fırat Kıyak , A. C. Cem Say

Engelfriet and Vereijken have shown that linear graph grammars based on hyperedge replacement generate graph languages that can be considered as interpretations of regular string languages over typed symbols. In this paper we show that…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Frank Drewes , Berthold Hoffmann , Mark Minas

Multi-head finite automata were introduced in (Rabin, 1964) and (Rosenberg, 1966). Since that time, a vast literature on computational and descriptional complexity issues on multi-head finite automata documenting the importance of these…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-06-19 Markus Holzer , Martin Kutrib , Andreas Malcher