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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 […]
Published on May 4, 2007
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 […]
Published on September 17, 2015
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) […]
Published on March 23, 2020
Mikołaj Bojańczyk ; Thomas Colcombet.
We define a new class of languages of $\omega$-words, strictly extending $\omega$-regular languages. One way to present this new class is by a type of regular expressions. The new expressions are an extension of $\omega$-regular expressions where two new variants of the Kleene star $L^*$ are […]
Published on October 26, 2017
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 […]
Published on September 7, 2022
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 […]
Published on January 29, 2024