R-automata

  • Parosh Aziz Abdulla
  • , Pavel Krcal
  • , Wang Yi

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Abstract

We introduce R-automata - finite state machines which operate on a finite number of unbounded counters. The values of the counters can be incremented, reset to zero, or left unchanged along the transitions. R-automata can be, for example, used to model systems with resources (modeled by the counters) which are consumed in small parts but which can be replenished at once. We define the language accepted by an R-automaton relative to a natural number D as the set of words allowing a run along which no counter value exceeds D. As the main result, we show decidability of the universality problem, i.e., the problem whether there is a number D such that the corresponding language is universal. We present a proof based on finite monoids and the factorization forest theorem. This theorem was applied for distance automata in [12]- a special case of R-automata with one counter which is never reset. As a second technical contribution, we extend the decidability result to R-automata with Büchi acceptance conditions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCONCUR 2008 - Concurrency Theory - 19th International Conference, CONCUR 2008, Proceedings
Pages67-81
Number of pages15
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event19th International Conference on Concurrency Theory, CONCUR 2008 - Toronto, ON, Canada
Duration: 19 Aug 200822 Aug 2008

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5201 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference19th International Conference on Concurrency Theory, CONCUR 2008
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityToronto, ON
Period19/08/0822/08/08

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