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A vector addition system (VAS) with an initial and a final marking and transition labels induces a language. In part because the reachability problem in VAS remains far from being well-understood, it is difficult to devise decision…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Wojciech Czerwiński , Piotr Hofman , Georg Zetzsche

When designing optimal controllers for any system, it is often the case that the true state of the system is unknown to the controller, for example due to noisy measurements or partially observable states. Incomplete state information must…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-23 Kendra Lesser , Meeko Oishi

Rare events in Stochastic Vector Addition System (VAS) are of significant interest because, while extremely unlikely, they may represent undesirable behavior that can have adverse effects. Their low probabilities and potentially extremely…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Joshua Jeppson , Landon Taylor , Bingqing Hu , Zhen Zhang

We study verification problems for history-constrained systems (HCS), a model of guarded computation that uses nested systems. An outer system describes the process architecture in which a sequence of actions represents the communication…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Louwe B. Kuijer , David Purser , Henry Sinclair-Banks , Patrick Totzke

A vector addition system with states (VASS) consists of a finite set of states and counters. A configuration is a state and a value for each counter; a transition changes the state and each counter is incremented, decremented, or left…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Thomas A. Henzinger , Jan Otop

Reachability analysis of hybrid systems has been used as a safety verification tool to assess offline whether the state of a system is capable of remaining within a designated safe region for a given time horizon. Although it has been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-24 Kendra Lesser , Meeko Oishi

Given two families of sets $\mathcal{F}$ and $\mathcal{G}$, the $\mathcal{F}$ separability problem for $\mathcal{G}$ asks whether for two given sets $U, V \in \mathcal{G}$ there exists a set $S \in \mathcal{F}$, such that $U$ is included in…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Lorenzo Clemente , Wojciech Czerwiński , Sławomir Lasota , Charles Paperman

Numerous properties of vector addition systems with states amount to checking the (un)boundedness of some selective feature (e.g., number of reversals, run length). Some of these features can be checked in exponential space by using…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-02 Stéphane Demri

In this paper we propose an improvement for flowpipe-construction-based reachability analysis techniques for hybrid systems. Such methods apply iterative successor computations to pave the reachable region of the state space by state sets…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Stefan Schupp , Johanna Nellen , Erika Ábrahám

This study focuses on reachability problems in differential games. An improved level set method for computing reachable tubes is proposed in this paper. The reachable tube is described as a sublevel set of a value function, which is the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-18 Wei Liao , Taotao Liang , Pengwen Xiong , Chen Wang , Aiguo Song , Peter X. Liu

We consider infinite-state Markov decision processes (MDPs) that are induced by extensions of vector addition systems with states (VASS). Verification conditions for these MDPs are described by reachability and Buchi objectives w.r.t. given…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-01-14 Parosh Aziz Abdulla , Radu Ciobanu , Richard Mayr , Arnaud Sangnier , Jeremy Sproston

In this paper, the reachability of dimension-bounded linear systems is investigated.Since state dimensions of dimension-bounded linear systems vary with time, the expression of state dimension at each time is provided.A method for judging…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Yiliang Li , Haitao Li , Jun-e Feng , Jinjin Li

The decision problems on matrices were intensively studied for many decades as matrix products play an essential role in the representation of various computational processes. However, many computational problems for matrix semigroups are…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Igor Potapov , Pavel Semukhin

We design a variation of the Karp-Miller algorithm to compute, in a forward manner, a finite representation of the cover (i.e., the downward closure of the reachability set) of a vector addition system with one zero-test. This algorithm…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Rémi Bonnet , Alain FInkel , Jérôme Leroux , Marc Zeitoun

We analyze affine reachability problems in dimensions 1 and 2. We show that the reachability problem for 1-register machines over the integers with affine updates is PSPACE-hard, hence PSPACE-complete, strengthening a result by Finkel et…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Stefan Jaax , Stefan Kiefer

We study the complexity of the maximum coverage problem, restricted to set systems of bounded VC-dimension. Our main result is a fixed-parameter tractable approximation scheme: an algorithm that outputs a $(1-\eps)$-approximation to the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-12-06 Ashwinkumar Badanidiyuru , Robert Kleinberg , Hooyeon Lee

In this work, we extend undecidability of language equivalence for two-dimensional Vector Addition System with States (VASS) accepting by coverability condition. We show that the problem is undecidable even when one of the two-dimensional…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Wojciech Czerwiński , Łukasz Orlikowski

In many kinds of infinite-state systems, the coverability problem has significantly lower complexity than the reachability problem. In order to delineate the border of computational hardness between coverability and reachability, we propose…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yousef Shakiba , Henry Sinclair-Banks , Georg Zetzsche

We study the language universality problem for One-Counter Nets, also known as 1-dimensional Vector Addition Systems with States (1-VASS), parameterized either with an initial counter value, or with an upper bound on the allowed counter…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Shaull Almagor , Udi Boker , Piotr Hofman , Patrick Totzke

Autonomous systems are increasingly implemented using end-to-end learning-based controllers. Such controllers make decisions that are executed on the real system, with images as one of the primary sensing modalities. Deep neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Yuang Geng , Jake Brandon Baldauf , Souradeep Dutta , Chao Huang , Ivan Ruchkin