---
_id: '13221'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: The safety-liveness dichotomy is a fundamental concept in formal languages
which plays a key role in verification. Recently, this dichotomy has been lifted
to quantitative properties, which are arbitrary functions from infinite words
to partially-ordered domains. We look into harnessing the dichotomy for the specific
classes of quantitative properties expressed by quantitative automata. These automata
contain finitely many states and rational-valued transition weights, and their
common value functions Inf, Sup, LimInf, LimSup, LimInfAvg, LimSupAvg, and DSum
map infinite words into the totallyordered domain of real numbers. In this automata-theoretic
setting, we establish a connection between quantitative safety and topological
continuity and provide an alternative characterization of quantitative safety
and liveness in terms of their boolean counterparts. For all common value functions,
we show how the safety closure of a quantitative automaton can be constructed
in PTime, and we provide PSpace-complete checks of whether a given quantitative
automaton is safe or live, with the exception of LimInfAvg and LimSupAvg automata,
for which the safety check is in ExpSpace. Moreover, for deterministic Sup, LimInf,
and LimSup automata, we give PTime decompositions into safe and live automata.
These decompositions enable the separation of techniques for safety and liveness
verification for quantitative specifications.
acknowledgement: We thank Christof Löding for pointing us to some results on PSpace-hardess
of universality problems and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments.
This work was supported in part by the ERC-2020-AdG 101020093 and the Israel Science
Foundation grant 2410/22.
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- LIPIcs
article_number: '17'
article_processing_charge: No
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author:
- first_name: Udi
full_name: Boker, Udi
id: 31E297B6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Boker
- first_name: Thomas A
full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A
id: 40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Henzinger
orcid: 0000-0002-2985-7724
- first_name: Nicolas Adrien
full_name: Mazzocchi, Nicolas Adrien
id: b26baa86-3308-11ec-87b0-8990f34baa85
last_name: Mazzocchi
- first_name: Naci E
full_name: Sarac, Naci E
id: 8C6B42F8-C8E6-11E9-A03A-F2DCE5697425
last_name: Sarac
citation:
ama: 'Boker U, Henzinger TA, Mazzocchi NA, Sarac NE. Safety and liveness of quantitative
automata. In: 34th International Conference on Concurrency Theory. Vol
279. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik; 2023. doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2023.17'
apa: 'Boker, U., Henzinger, T. A., Mazzocchi, N. A., & Sarac, N. E. (2023).
Safety and liveness of quantitative automata. In 34th International Conference
on Concurrency Theory (Vol. 279). Antwerp, Belgium: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum
für Informatik. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2023.17'
chicago: Boker, Udi, Thomas A Henzinger, Nicolas Adrien Mazzocchi, and Naci E Sarac.
“Safety and Liveness of Quantitative Automata.” In 34th International Conference
on Concurrency Theory, Vol. 279. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik,
2023. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2023.17.
ieee: U. Boker, T. A. Henzinger, N. A. Mazzocchi, and N. E. Sarac, “Safety and liveness
of quantitative automata,” in 34th International Conference on Concurrency
Theory, Antwerp, Belgium, 2023, vol. 279.
ista: 'Boker U, Henzinger TA, Mazzocchi NA, Sarac NE. 2023. Safety and liveness
of quantitative automata. 34th International Conference on Concurrency Theory.
CONCUR: Conference on Concurrency Theory, LIPIcs, vol. 279, 17.'
mla: Boker, Udi, et al. “Safety and Liveness of Quantitative Automata.” 34th
International Conference on Concurrency Theory, vol. 279, 17, Schloss Dagstuhl
- Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2023, doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2023.17.
short: U. Boker, T.A. Henzinger, N.A. Mazzocchi, N.E. Sarac, in:, 34th International
Conference on Concurrency Theory, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik,
2023.
conference:
end_date: 2023-09-23
location: Antwerp, Belgium
name: 'CONCUR: Conference on Concurrency Theory'
start_date: 2023-09-18
date_created: 2023-07-14T10:00:15Z
date_published: 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-10-09T07:14:03Z
day: '01'
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- '000'
department:
- _id: GradSch
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doi: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2023.17
ec_funded: 1
external_id:
arxiv:
- '2307.06016'
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_id: '13292'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: The operator precedence languages (OPLs) represent the largest known subclass
of the context-free languages which enjoys all desirable closure and decidability
properties. This includes the decidability of language inclusion, which is the
ultimate verification problem. Operator precedence grammars, automata, and logics
have been investigated and used, for example, to verify programs with arithmetic
expressions and exceptions (both of which are deterministic pushdown but lie outside
the scope of the visibly pushdown languages). In this paper, we complete the picture
and give, for the first time, an algebraic characterization of the class of OPLs
in the form of a syntactic congruence that has finitely many equivalence classes
exactly for the operator precedence languages. This is a generalization of the
celebrated Myhill-Nerode theorem for the regular languages to OPLs. As one of
the consequences, we show that universality and language inclusion for nondeterministic
operator precedence automata can be solved by an antichain algorithm. Antichain
algorithms avoid determinization and complementation through an explicit subset
construction, by leveraging a quasi-order on words, which allows the pruning of
the search space for counterexample words without sacrificing completeness. Antichain
algorithms can be implemented symbolically, and these implementations are today
the best-performing algorithms in practice for the inclusion of finite automata.
We give a generic construction of the quasi-order needed for antichain algorithms
from a finite syntactic congruence. This yields the first antichain algorithm
for OPLs, an algorithm that solves the ExpTime-hard language inclusion problem
for OPLs in exponential time.
acknowledgement: "This work was supported in part by the ERC-2020-AdG 101020093.\r\nWe
thank Pierre Ganty for early discussions and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful
comments.\r\n"
alternative_title:
- LIPIcs
article_processing_charge: Yes
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: Thomas A
full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A
id: 40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Henzinger
orcid: 0000-0002-2985-7724
- first_name: Pavol
full_name: Kebis, Pavol
last_name: Kebis
- first_name: Nicolas Adrien
full_name: Mazzocchi, Nicolas Adrien
id: b26baa86-3308-11ec-87b0-8990f34baa85
last_name: Mazzocchi
- first_name: Naci E
full_name: Sarac, Naci E
id: 8C6B42F8-C8E6-11E9-A03A-F2DCE5697425
last_name: Sarac
citation:
ama: 'Henzinger TA, Kebis P, Mazzocchi NA, Sarac NE. Regular methods for operator
precedence languages. In: 50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages,
and Programming. Vol 261. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik;
2023:129:1--129:20. doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.129'
apa: 'Henzinger, T. A., Kebis, P., Mazzocchi, N. A., & Sarac, N. E. (2023).
Regular methods for operator precedence languages. In 50th International Colloquium
on Automata, Languages, and Programming (Vol. 261, p. 129:1--129:20). Paderborn,
Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.129'
chicago: Henzinger, Thomas A, Pavol Kebis, Nicolas Adrien Mazzocchi, and Naci E
Sarac. “Regular Methods for Operator Precedence Languages.” In 50th International
Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming, 261:129:1--129:20. Schloss
Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.129.
ieee: T. A. Henzinger, P. Kebis, N. A. Mazzocchi, and N. E. Sarac, “Regular methods
for operator precedence languages,” in 50th International Colloquium on Automata,
Languages, and Programming, Paderborn, Germany, 2023, vol. 261, p. 129:1--129:20.
ista: 'Henzinger TA, Kebis P, Mazzocchi NA, Sarac NE. 2023. Regular methods for
operator precedence languages. 50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages,
and Programming. ICALP: International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming,
LIPIcs, vol. 261, 129:1--129:20.'
mla: Henzinger, Thomas A., et al. “Regular Methods for Operator Precedence Languages.”
50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming,
vol. 261, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2023, p. 129:1--129:20,
doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.129.
short: T.A. Henzinger, P. Kebis, N.A. Mazzocchi, N.E. Sarac, in:, 50th International
Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum
für Informatik, 2023, p. 129:1--129:20.
conference:
end_date: 2023-07-14
location: Paderborn, Germany
name: 'ICALP: International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming'
start_date: 2023-07-10
date_created: 2023-07-24T15:11:41Z
date_published: 2023-07-05T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-07-31T08:38:38Z
day: '05'
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- '000'
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- _id: GradSch
- _id: ToHe
doi: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.129
ec_funded: 1
external_id:
arxiv:
- '2305.03447'
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publication: 50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming
publication_identifier:
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- 1868-8969
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- '9783959772785'
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---
_id: '12467'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Safety and liveness are elementary concepts of computation, and the foundation
of many verification paradigms. The safety-liveness classification of boolean
properties characterizes whether a given property can be falsified by observing
a finite prefix of an infinite computation trace (always for safety, never for
liveness). In quantitative specification and verification, properties assign not
truth values, but quantitative values to infinite traces (e.g., a cost, or the
distance to a boolean property). We introduce quantitative safety and liveness,
and we prove that our definitions induce conservative quantitative generalizations
of both (1)~the safety-progress hierarchy of boolean properties and (2)~the safety-liveness
decomposition of boolean properties. In particular, we show that every quantitative
property can be written as the pointwise minimum of a quantitative safety property
and a quantitative liveness property. Consequently, like boolean properties, also
quantitative properties can be min-decomposed into safety and liveness parts,
or alternatively, max-decomposed into co-safety and co-liveness parts. Moreover,
quantitative properties can be approximated naturally. We prove that every quantitative
property that has both safe and co-safe approximations can be monitored arbitrarily
precisely by a monitor that uses only a finite number of states.
acknowledgement: We thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. This
work was supported in part by the ERC-2020-AdG 101020093.
alternative_title:
- LNCS
article_processing_charge: No
arxiv: 1
author:
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full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A
id: 40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
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last_name: Sarac
citation:
ama: 'Henzinger TA, Mazzocchi NA, Sarac NE. Quantitative safety and liveness. In:
26th International Conference Foundations of Software Science and Computation
Structures. Vol 13992. Springer Nature; 2023:349-370. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-30829-1_17'
apa: 'Henzinger, T. A., Mazzocchi, N. A., & Sarac, N. E. (2023). Quantitative
safety and liveness. In 26th International Conference Foundations of Software
Science and Computation Structures (Vol. 13992, pp. 349–370). Paris, France:
Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30829-1_17'
chicago: Henzinger, Thomas A, Nicolas Adrien Mazzocchi, and Naci E Sarac. “Quantitative
Safety and Liveness.” In 26th International Conference Foundations of Software
Science and Computation Structures, 13992:349–70. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30829-1_17.
ieee: T. A. Henzinger, N. A. Mazzocchi, and N. E. Sarac, “Quantitative safety and
liveness,” in 26th International Conference Foundations of Software Science
and Computation Structures, Paris, France, 2023, vol. 13992, pp. 349–370.
ista: 'Henzinger TA, Mazzocchi NA, Sarac NE. 2023. Quantitative safety and liveness.
26th International Conference Foundations of Software Science and Computation
Structures. FOSSACS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures,
LNCS, vol. 13992, 349–370.'
mla: Henzinger, Thomas A., et al. “Quantitative Safety and Liveness.” 26th International
Conference Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures, vol.
13992, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 349–70, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-30829-1_17.
short: T.A. Henzinger, N.A. Mazzocchi, N.E. Sarac, in:, 26th International Conference
Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures, Springer Nature, 2023,
pp. 349–370.
conference:
end_date: 2023-04-27
location: Paris, France
name: 'FOSSACS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures'
start_date: 2023-04-22
date_created: 2023-01-31T07:23:56Z
date_published: 2023-04-21T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-07-14T11:20:27Z
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ddc:
- '000'
department:
- _id: GradSch
- _id: ToHe
doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-30829-1_17
ec_funded: 1
external_id:
arxiv:
- '2301.11175'
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Structures
publication_identifier:
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---
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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: 'Quantitative monitoring can be universal and approximate: For every finite
sequence of observations, the specification provides a value and the monitor outputs
a best-effort approximation of it. The quality of the approximation may depend
on the resources that are available to the monitor. By taking to the limit the
sequences of specification values and monitor outputs, we obtain precision-resource
trade-offs also for limit monitoring. This paper provides a formal framework for
studying such trade-offs using an abstract interpretation for monitors: For each
natural number n, the aggregate semantics of a monitor at time n is an equivalence
relation over all sequences of at most n observations so that two equivalent sequences
are indistinguishable to the monitor and thus mapped to the same output. This
abstract interpretation of quantitative monitors allows us to measure the number
of equivalence classes (or “resource use”) that is necessary for a certain precision
up to a certain time, or at any time. Our framework offers several insights. For
example, we identify a family of specifications for which any resource-optimal
exact limit monitor is independent of any error permitted over finite traces.
Moreover, we present a specification for which any resource-optimal approximate
limit monitor does not minimize its resource use at any time. '
acknowledgement: We thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. This
work was supported in part by the ERC-2020-AdG 101020093.
alternative_title:
- LNCS
article_processing_charge: Yes
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ama: 'Henzinger TA, Mazzocchi NA, Sarac NE. Abstract monitors for quantitative specifications.
In: 22nd International Conference on Runtime Verification. Vol 13498. Springer
Nature; 2022:200-220. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-17196-3_11'
apa: 'Henzinger, T. A., Mazzocchi, N. A., & Sarac, N. E. (2022). Abstract monitors
for quantitative specifications. In 22nd International Conference on Runtime
Verification (Vol. 13498, pp. 200–220). Tbilisi, Georgia: Springer Nature.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17196-3_11'
chicago: Henzinger, Thomas A, Nicolas Adrien Mazzocchi, and Naci E Sarac. “Abstract
Monitors for Quantitative Specifications.” In 22nd International Conference
on Runtime Verification, 13498:200–220. Springer Nature, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17196-3_11.
ieee: T. A. Henzinger, N. A. Mazzocchi, and N. E. Sarac, “Abstract monitors for
quantitative specifications,” in 22nd International Conference on Runtime Verification,
Tbilisi, Georgia, 2022, vol. 13498, pp. 200–220.
ista: 'Henzinger TA, Mazzocchi NA, Sarac NE. 2022. Abstract monitors for quantitative
specifications. 22nd International Conference on Runtime Verification. RV: Runtime
Verification, LNCS, vol. 13498, 200–220.'
mla: Henzinger, Thomas A., et al. “Abstract Monitors for Quantitative Specifications.”
22nd International Conference on Runtime Verification, vol. 13498, Springer
Nature, 2022, pp. 200–20, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-17196-3_11.
short: T.A. Henzinger, N.A. Mazzocchi, N.E. Sarac, in:, 22nd International Conference
on Runtime Verification, Springer Nature, 2022, pp. 200–220.
conference:
end_date: 2022-09-30
location: Tbilisi, Georgia
name: 'RV: Runtime Verification'
start_date: 2022-09-28
date_created: 2022-08-08T17:09:09Z
date_published: 2022-09-23T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-08-03T13:38:46Z
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- '000'
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ec_funded: 1
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- '000866539700011'
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_id: '8912'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: "For automata, synchronization, the problem of bringing an automaton to a
particular state regardless of its initial state, is important. It has several
applications in practice and is related to a fifty-year-old conjecture on the
length of the shortest synchronizing word. Although using shorter words increases
the effectiveness in practice, finding a shortest one (which is not necessarily
unique) is NP-hard. For this reason, there exist various heuristics in the literature.
However, high-quality heuristics such as SynchroP producing relatively shorter
sequences are very expensive and can take hours when the automaton has tens of
thousands of states. The SynchroP heuristic has been frequently used as a benchmark
to evaluate the performance of the new heuristics. In this work, we first improve
the runtime of SynchroP and its variants by using algorithmic techniques. We then
focus on adapting SynchroP for many-core architectures,\r\nand overall, we obtain
more than 1000× speedup on GPUs compared to naive sequential implementation that
has been frequently used as a benchmark to evaluate new heuristics in the literature.
We also propose two SynchroP variants and evaluate their performance."
acknowledgement: This work was supported by The Scientific and Technological Research
Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) [grant number 114E569]. This research was supported
in part by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under grant Z211-N23 (Wittgenstein Award).
We would like to thank the authors of (Roman & Szykula, 2015) for providing their
heuristics implementations, which we used to compare our SynchroP implementation
as given in Table 11.
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synchronizing heuristics. Expert Systems with Applications. 2021;167(4).
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apa: Sarac, N. E., Altun, Ö. F., Atam, K. T., Karahoda, S., Kaya, K., & Yenigün,
H. (2021). Boosting expensive synchronizing heuristics. Expert Systems with
Applications. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.114203
chicago: Sarac, Naci E, Ömer Faruk Altun, Kamil Tolga Atam, Sertac Karahoda, Kamer
Kaya, and Hüsnü Yenigün. “Boosting Expensive Synchronizing Heuristics.” Expert
Systems with Applications. Elsevier, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.114203.
ieee: N. E. Sarac, Ö. F. Altun, K. T. Atam, S. Karahoda, K. Kaya, and H. Yenigün,
“Boosting expensive synchronizing heuristics,” Expert Systems with Applications,
vol. 167, no. 4. Elsevier, 2021.
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expensive synchronizing heuristics. Expert Systems with Applications. 167(4),
114203.
mla: Sarac, Naci E., et al. “Boosting Expensive Synchronizing Heuristics.” Expert
Systems with Applications, vol. 167, no. 4, 114203, Elsevier, 2021, doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2020.114203.
short: N.E. Sarac, Ö.F. Altun, K.T. Atam, S. Karahoda, K. Kaya, H. Yenigün, Expert
Systems with Applications 167 (2021).
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text: 'In runtime verification, a monitor watches a trace of a system and, if possible,
decides after observing each finite prefix whether or not the unknown infinite
trace satisfies a given specification. We generalize the theory of runtime verification
to monitors that attempt to estimate numerical values of quantitative trace properties
(instead of attempting to conclude boolean values of trace specifications), such
as maximal or average response time along a trace. Quantitative monitors are approximate:
with every finite prefix, they can improve their estimate of the infinite trace''s
unknown property value. Consequently, quantitative monitors can be compared with
regard to a precision-cost trade-off: better approximations of the property value
require more monitor resources, such as states (in the case of finite-state monitors)
or registers, and additional resources yield better approximations. We introduce
a formal framework for quantitative and approximate monitoring, show how it conservatively
generalizes the classical boolean setting for monitoring, and give several precision-cost
trade-offs for monitors. For example, we prove that there are quantitative properties
for which every additional register improves monitoring precision.'
acknowledgement: We thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. This
research was supported in part by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under grant Z211-N23
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Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science,
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Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers, 2021.
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limits the space of possible traces that the monitor may encounter. An assumption
may result from knowledge about the system that is being monitored, about the
environment, or about another, connected monitor. We define monitorability under
assumptions and study its theoretical properties. In particular, we show that
for every assumption A, the boolean combinations of properties that are safe or
co-safe relative to A are monitorable under A. We give several examples and constructions
on how an assumption can make a non-monitorable property monitorable, and how
an assumption can make a monitorable property monitorable with fewer resources,
such as integer registers.
acknowledgement: This research was supported in part by the Austrian Science Fund
(FWF) under grant Z211-N23 (Wittgenstein Award).
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