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Regular Cost Functions, Part I: Logic and Algebra over Words

Thomas Colcombet.

The theory of regular cost functions is a quantitative extension to the classical notion of regularity. A cost function associates to each input a non-negative integer value (or infinity), as opposed to languages which only associate to each input the two values "inside" and "outside". This theory&nbsp;[&hellip;]

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Automata Minimization: a Functorial Approach

Thomas Colcombet ; Daniela Petrişan.

In this paper we regard languages and their acceptors - such as deterministic or weighted automata, transducers, or monoids - as functors from input categories that specify the type of the languages and of the machines to categories that specify the type of outputs. Our results are as follows: A)&nbsp;[&hellip;]

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Transforming structures by set interpretations

Thomas Colcombet ; Christof Löding.

We consider a new kind of interpretation over relational structures: finite sets interpretations. Those interpretations are defined by weak monadic second-order (WMSO) formulas with free set variables. They transform a given structure into a structure with a domain consisting of finite sets of&nbsp;[&hellip;]

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The Theory of Universal Graphs for Infinite Duration Games

Thomas Colcombet ; Nathanaël Fijalkow ; Paweł Gawrychowski ; Pierre Ohlmann.

We introduce the notion of universal graphs as a tool for constructing algorithms solving games of infinite duration such as parity games and mean payoff games. In the first part we develop the theory of universal graphs, with two goals: showing an equivalence and normalisation result between&nbsp;[&hellip;]

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Playing Safe, Ten Years Later

Thomas Colcombet ; Nathanaël Fijalkow ; Florian Horn.

We consider two-player games over graphs and give tight bounds on the memory size of strategies ensuring safety objectives. More specifically, we show that the minimal number of memory states of a strategy ensuring a safety objective is given by the size of the maximal antichain of left quotients&nbsp;[&hellip;]

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