形式语言与自动机理论

We study the satisfiability of string constraints where context-free membership constraints may be imposed on variables. Additionally a variable may be constrained to be a subword of a word obtained by shuffling variables and their…

Context-free languages can be characterized in several ways. This article studies projective linearisations of languages of simple dependency trees, i.e., dependency trees in which a node can govern at most one node with a given syntactic…

Cellular automata (CAs) are dynamical systems which exhibit complex global behavior from simple local interaction and computation. Since the inception of cellular automaton (CA) by von Neumann in 1950s, it has attracted the attention of…

The class of Boolean combinations of tree languages recognized by deterministic top-down tree automata (also known as deterministic root-to-frontier automata) is studied. The problem of determining for a given regular tree language whether…

We introduce hypernode automata as a new specification formalism for hyperproperties of concurrent systems. They are finite automata with nodes labeled with hypernode logic formulas and transitions labeled with actions. A hypernode logic…

Grammatical inference consists in learning a language or a grammar from data. In this paper, we consider a number of models for inferring a non-deterministic finite automaton (NFA) with 3 sorts of states, that must accept some words, and…

A $k$-Counter Net ($k$-CN) is a finite-state automaton equipped with $k$ integer counters that are not allowed to become negative, but do not have explicit zero tests. This language-recognition model can be thought of as labelled vector…

Words whose three successive factors of the same length are all different i.e. 3-anti-power words are a natural extension of square-free words (two successive factors of the same length are different). We give a way to verify whether a…

We consider the model-checking problem of Synchronized Computation-Tree Logic (CTL+Sync) over One-Counter Automata (OCAs). CTL+Sync augments CTL with temporal operators that require several paths to satisfy properties in a synchronous…

Multiset rewriting systems provide a formalism particularly suitable for the description of biological systems. We present an extension of this formalism with additional controls on the derivations as a tool for reducing possible…

We prove nonexistence of minimal-time solutions for three variations of the firing squad synchronization problem (FSSP, for short). Configurations of these variations are paths in the two-dimensional grid space having simple geometric…

A Wheeler automaton is a finite state automaton whose states admit a total Wheeler order, reflecting the co-lexicographic order of the strings labeling source-to-node paths. A Wheeler language is a regular language admitting an accepting…

We investigate questions related to the notion of recognizability of sequences of morphisms, a generalization of Moss{\'e}'s Theorem. We consider the most general class of morphisms including ones with erasable letters. The main result…

The problem of learning a computational model from examples has been receiving growing attention. For the particularly challenging problem of learning models of distributed systems, existing results are restricted to models with a fixed…

GF(2)-grammars are a somewhat recently introduced grammar family that have some unusual algebraic properties and are closely connected to unambiguous grammars. In "Bounded languages described by GF(2)-grammars", Makarov proved a necessary…

The communication matrix for two-way deterministic finite automata (2DFA) with $n$ states is defined for an automaton over a full alphabet of all $(2n+1)^n$ possible symbols: its rows and columns are indexed by strings, and the entry $(u,…

We present a mathematical setting for attack-defense trees, a classic graphical model to specify attacks and countermeasures. We equip attack-defense trees with (trace) language semantics allowing to have an original dynamic interpretation…

In this paper, we consider a problem which we call LTL$_f$ model checking on paths: given a DFA $\mathcal{A}$ and a formula $\phi$ in LTL on finite traces, does there exist a word $w$ such that every path starting in a state of…

Following Inoue et al., we define a word to be a repetition if it is a (fractional) power of exponent at least 2. A word has a repetition factorization if it is the product of repetitions. We study repetition factorizations in several…

Hypergraph Lambek grammars (HL-grammars) is a novel logical approach to generating graph languages based on the hypergraph Lambek calculus. In this paper, we establish a precise relation between HL-grammars and hypergraph grammars based on…