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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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Logics with rigidly guarded data tests

Gabriele Puppis ; Thomas Colcombet ; Clemens Ley.

The notion of orbit finite data monoid was recently introduced by Bojanczyk as an algebraic object for defining recognizable languages of data words. Following Buchi's approach, we introduce a variant of monadic second-order logic with data equality tests that captures precisely the data languages&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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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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Controlling a random population

Thomas Colcombet ; Nathanaël Fijalkow ; Pierre Ohlmann.

Bertrand et al. introduced a model of parameterised systems, where each agent is represented by a finite state system, and studied the following control problem: for any number of agents, does there exist a controller able to bring all agents to a target state? They showed that the problem is&nbsp;[&hellip;]

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