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Type-and-effect systems are a widely-used approach to program verification, verifying the result of a computation using types, and the behavior using effects. This paper extends an effect system for verifying temporal, value-dependent…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Taro Sekiyama , Hiroshi Unno

Due to the undecidability of most type-related properties of System F like type inhabitation or type checking, restricted polymorphic systems have been widely investigated (the most well-known being ML-polymorphism). In this paper we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Paolo Pistone , Luca Tranchini

We study timed systems in which some timing features are unknown parameters. Parametric timed automata (PTAs) are a classical formalism for such systems but for which most interesting problems are undecidable. Notably, the parametric…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Étienne André , Didier Lime , Olivier H. Roux

The undecidability of basic decision problems for general FIFO machines such as reachability and unboundedness is well-known. In this paper, we provide an underapproximation for the general model by considering only runs that are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Benedikt Bollig , Alain Finkel , Amrita Suresh

Vector addition systems with states (VASS) are widely used for the formal verification of concurrent systems. Given their tremendous computational complexity, practical approaches have relied on techniques such as reachability relaxations,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Michael Blondin , Mikhail Raskin

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

The verification of concurrent programs under weak-memory models is a burgeoning effort, owing to the increasing adoption of weak memory in concurrent software and hardware. Release/Acquire has become the standard model for high-performance…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Giovanna Kobus Conrado , Andreas Pavlogiannis

We study the emptiness and $\lambda$-reachability problems for unary and binary Probabilistic Finite Automata (PFA) and characterise the complexity of these problems in terms of the degree of ambiguity of the automaton and the size of its…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Paul C. Bell , Pavel Semukhin

We consider the model of one-dimensional Pushdown Vector Addition Systems (1-PVAS), a fundamental computational model simulating both recursive and concurrent behaviours. Our main result is decidability of the reachability problem for…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Clotilde Bizière , Wojciech Czerwiński

It is an open question whether the search and decision versions of promise CSPs are equivalent. Most known algorithms for PCSPs solve only their \emph{decision} variant, and it is unknown whether they can be adapted to solve \emph{search}…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Alberto Larrauri

We revisit a fundamental result in real-time verification, namely that the binary reachability relation between configurations of a given timed automaton is definable in linear arithmetic over the integers and reals. In this paper we give a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Karin Quaas , Mahsa Shirmohammadi , James Worrell

We study the problem of completely automatically verifying uninterpreted programs---programs that work over arbitrary data models that provide an interpretation for the constants, functions and relations the program uses. The verification…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Umang Mathur , P. Madhusudan , Mahesh Viswanathan

The model of asynchronous programming arises in many contexts, from low-level systems software to high-level web programming. We take a language-theoretic perspective and show general decidability and undecidability results for asynchronous…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Rupak Majumdar , Ramanathan S. Thinniyam , Georg Zetzsche

We consider the problem of approximating the reachability probabilities in Markov decision processes (MDP) with uncountable (continuous) state and action spaces. While there are algorithms that, for special classes of such MDP, provide a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-13 Kush Grover , Jan Křetínský , Tobias Meggendorfer , Maximilian Weininger

We study several decision problems for counter systems with guards defined by convex polyhedra and updates defined by affine transformations. In general, the reachability problem is undecidable for such systems. Decidability can be achieved…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Radu Iosif , Arnaud Sangnier

We reveal an algorithm for determining the complete prefix code irreducibility (CPC-irreducibility) of dyadic trees labeled by a finite alphabet. By introducing an extended directed graph representation of tree shift of finite type (TSFT),…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Jung-Chao Ban , Chih-Hung Chang , Nai-Zhu Huang , Yu-Liang Wu

This paper shows that the satisfiability problem for probabilistic CTL (PCTL, for short) is undecidable. By a reduction from $1\frac{1}{2}$-player games with PCTL winning objectives, we establish that the PCTL satisfiability problem is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Souymodip Chakraborty , Joost-Pieter Katoen

We investigate the satisfiability and finite satisfiability problem for probabilistic computation-tree logic (PCTL) where operators are not restricted by any step bounds. We establish decidability for several fragments containing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Jan Křetínský , Alexej Rotar

We study reachability games on recursive timed automata (RTA) that generalize Alur-Dill timed automata with recursive procedure invocation mechanism similar to recursive state machines. It is known that deciding the winner in reachability…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Shankara Narayanan Krishna , Lakshmi Manasa , Ashutosh Trivedi

The question if a deterministic finite automaton admits a software reset in the form of a so-called synchronizing word can be answered in polynomial time. In this paper, we extend this algorithmic question to deterministic automata beyond…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Henning Fernau , Petra Wolf , Tomoyuki Yamakami