Bidirectional nested weighted automata

Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Otop J. 2017. Bidirectional nested weighted automata. 28th International Conference on Concurrency Theory, CONCUR, LIPIcs, vol. 85, 5.

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Nested weighted automata (NWA) present a robust and convenient automata-theoretic formalism for quantitative specifications. Previous works have considered NWA that processed input words only in the forward direction. It is natural to allow the automata to process input words backwards as well, for example, to measure the maximal or average time between a response and the preceding request. We therefore introduce and study bidirectional NWA that can process input words in both directions. First, we show that bidirectional NWA can express interesting quantitative properties that are not expressible by forward-only NWA. Second, for the fundamental decision problems of emptiness and universality, we establish decidability and complexity results for the new framework which match the best-known results for the special case of forward-only NWA. Thus, for NWA, the increased expressiveness of bidirectionality is achieved at no additional computational complexity. This is in stark contrast to the unweighted case, where bidirectional finite automata are no more expressive but exponentially more succinct than their forward-only counterparts.
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Date Published
2017-08-01
Publisher
Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
Volume
85
Article Number
5
Conference
28th International Conference on Concurrency Theory, CONCUR
Conference Location
Berlin, Germany
Conference Date
2017-09-05 – 2017-09-08
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IST-REx-ID
711

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Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Otop J. Bidirectional nested weighted automata. In: Vol 85. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik; 2017. doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2017.5
Chatterjee, K., Henzinger, T. A., & Otop, J. (2017). Bidirectional nested weighted automata (Vol. 85). Presented at the 28th International Conference on Concurrency Theory, CONCUR, Berlin, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2017.5
Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Thomas A Henzinger, and Jan Otop. “Bidirectional Nested Weighted Automata,” Vol. 85. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2017.5.
K. Chatterjee, T. A. Henzinger, and J. Otop, “Bidirectional nested weighted automata,” presented at the 28th International Conference on Concurrency Theory, CONCUR, Berlin, Germany, 2017, vol. 85.
Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Otop J. 2017. Bidirectional nested weighted automata. 28th International Conference on Concurrency Theory, CONCUR, LIPIcs, vol. 85, 5.
Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. Bidirectional Nested Weighted Automata. Vol. 85, 5, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2017, doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2017.5.
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