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Seminar Automata Theory

Weekly research seminar


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Wednesdays, 2:15 p.m. , room: 5050

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  • Nov. 23, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    Jakob Piribauer (TU Dresden)
    Tradeoff between expectation and variance in Markov decision processes
    The stochastic shortest path problem asks to resolve the non-deterministic choices in a Markov decision process (MDP) such that the expected accumulated weight before reaching a target state is maximized. This problem is well-studied and …

  • Nov. 16, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    Mikołaj Bojańczyk (MIM UW)
    Folding interpretations
    In this talk, I will discuss a characterisation of the polyregular functions which uses folding. The idea is to use the combinator approach, i.e. start with certain atomic functions (such as list concatenation) and apply …

  • Nov. 9, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    Paweł Parys (MIM UW)
    Weak Bisimulation Finiteness of Pushdown Systems With Deterministic ε-Transitions Is 2-EXPTIME-Complete
    We consider the problem of deciding whether a given pushdown system all of whose ε-transitions are deterministic is weakly bisimulation finite, that is, whether it is weakly bisimulation equivalent to a finite system. We prove …

  • Oct. 26, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    Michael Blondin (Université de Sherbrooke)
    Separators in continuous Petri nets
    In this talk, we will consider Petri nets: a well-established formalism for the analysis of concurrent systems. Testing whether a target Petri net configuration cannot be reached often amounts to proving the absence of bugs …

  • Oct. 19, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    Szymon Toruńczyk (MIM UW)
    On monadically stable and monadically NIP classes of graphs
    Sparsity theory, initiated by Ossona de Mendez and Nesetril, identifies those classes of sparse graphs that are tractable in various ways (e.g. from the perspective of the model checking problem for first order logic) as …

  • Oct. 11, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    Stefan Göller (Universität Kassel)
    The AC0-complexity of visibly pushdown languages.
    The talk will be on the question which visibly pushdown languages (VPLs) are in the complexity class AC0. We provide a conjectural characterization that isolates a stubborn subclass of very particular one-turn visibly pushdown languages …

  • Oct. 5, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    Nguyễn Lê Thành Dũng (École normale supérieure de Lyon)
    A transducer model for simply typed λ-definable functions
    Among the natural ways to define functions ℕ^k -> ℕ in the simply typed λ-calculus, one of them allows hyperexponential growth (any tower of exponentials) but excludes many basic functions such as subtraction and equality, …

  • June 15, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    Albert Gutowski (MIM UW)
    Finite entailment of UCRPQs over ALC ontologies
    We solve finite ontology-mediated query entailment for ontologies expressed in ALC (a description logic, closely related to (multi)modal logic) and queries expressed as UCRPQs (extending UCQs - unions of conjunctive queries - with constraints on …

  • June 8, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    Jędrzej Kołodziejski (MIM UW)
    Multi-valued Fixpoint Logic
    We investigate multi-valued fixpoint logic, an extension of the classical mu-calculus where logical values range over a fixed complete lattice A equipped with monotone operations as connectives. We present equivalent game semantics for the logic …

  • June 1, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    Michał Skrzypczak (MIM UW)
    Computing measures of regular languages via fixpoint expressions
    During the talk I will present our ongoing work with Damian Niwiński and Paweł Parys on computing measures of regular languages. Our approach (following earlier results with Marcin Przybyłko) is to reduce the problem to …

  • May 25, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    Olivier Carton; Sebastian Maneth (University of Paris; University of Bremen)
    Tight links between normality and automata; Two Applications of the Parikh Property
    Abstract (Tight links between normality and automata): Normality has been introduced by É. Borel more than one hundred years ago. A real number is normal to an integer base if, in its infinite expansion expressed …

  • May 11, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    Filip Mazowiecki (MIM UW)
    The complexity of soundness in workflow nets
    Workflow nets are a popular variant of Petri nets that allow for algorithmic formal analysis of business processes. The central decision problems concerning workflow nets deal with soundness, where the initial and final configurations are …

  • April 27, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    David Purser (MIM UW)
    The Skolem Problem for Simple Linear Recurrence Sequences
    The Skolem Problem, asks to decide whether a linear recurrence sequence has a zero term. The Skolem-Mahler-Lech theorem states that the set of zeros of a linear recurrence sequence is the union of a finite …

  • April 20, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    Wojciech Przybyszewski (MIM UW)
    Definability of neighborhoods in graphs of bounded twin-width and its consequences
    During the talk, we will study set systems formed by neighborhoods in graphs of bounded twin-width. In particular, we will show how, for a given graph from a class of graphs of bounded twin-width, to …

  • April 6, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    Rose McCarty (MIM UW)
    Vertex-minors: dense graphs from sparse graphs
    Structural graph theory has traditionally focused on graph classes that are sparse (that is, only contain graphs with few edges). Lately, however, there has been an ongoing shift towards the dense setting. In the first …