Publications related to Alternating finite automaton

Exponential extinction time of the contact process on finite graphs

Thomas Mountford, Daniel Rodrigues Valesin, Jean-Christophe Mourrat

We study the extinction time tau of the contact process started with full occupancy on finite trees of bounded degree. We show that, if the infection rate is larger than the critical rate for the contact process on Z, then, uniformly over all trees of degr ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

On the Dispersions of the Gel'fand-Pinsker Channel and Dirty Paper Coding

Jonathan Mark Scarlett

This paper studies the second-order coding rates for memoryless channels with a state sequence known non-causally at the encoder. In the case of finite alphabets, an achievability result is obtained using constant-composition random coding, and by using a ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Asymptotically Optimal Matching of Multiple Sequences to Source Distributions and Training Sequences

Jayakrishnan Unnikrishnan

Consider a finite set of sources, each producing independent identically distributed observations that follow a unique probability distribution on a finite alphabet. We study the problem of matching a finite set of observed sequences to the set of sources ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Formalization, Implementation, and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems

Alcherio Martinoli, José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira

The work described is part of a long term program of introducing institutional robotics, a novel framework for the coordination of robot teams that stems from institutional economics concepts. Under the framework, institutions are cumulative sets of persis ...

2014

Finite-Length Scaling for Polar Codes

Rüdiger Urbanke, Seyed Hamed Hassani

Consider a binary-input memoryless output-symmetric channel W. Such a channel has a capacity, call it I (W), and for any R < I (W) and strictly positive constant P-e we know that we can construct a coding scheme that allows transmission at rate R with an e ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014

On Optimal Two Sample Homogeneity Tests for Finite Alphabets

Jayakrishnan Unnikrishnan

Suppose we are given two independent strings of data from a known finite alphabet. We are interested in testing the null hypothesis that both the strings were drawn from the same distribution, assuming that the samples within each string are mutually indep ...

Ieee2012

Quasi-Static Scheduling of CAL Actor Networks for Reconfigurable Video Coding

Marco Mattavelli, Christophe Lucarz, Jani Boutellier

The upcoming Reconﬁgurable Video Coding (RVC) standard from MPEG (ISO / IEC SC29WG11) deﬁnes a library of coding tools to specify existing or new compressed video formats and decoders. The coding tool library has been written in a dataﬂow/actor- oriented l ...

2011

Rank-Deficient Quadratic-Form Maximization Over M-Phase Alphabet: Polynomial-Complexity Solvability And Algorithmic Developments

Anastasios Kyrillidis

The maximization of a positive (semi) definite complex quadratic form over a finite alphabet is NP-hard and achieved through exhaustive search when the form has full rank. However, if the form is rank-deficient, the optimal solution can be computed with on ...

IEEE2011

Expressiveness And Closure Properties For Quantitative Languages

Laurent Doyen

Weighted automata are nondeterministic automata with numerical weights on transitions. They can define quantitative languages L that assign to each word w a real number L(w). In the case of infinite words, the value of a run is naturally computed as the ma ...

2010

Quantitative Languages

Laurent Doyen

Quantitative generalizations of classical languages, which assign to each word a real number instead of a Boolean value, have applications in modeling resource-constrained computation. We use weighted automata (finite automata with transition weights) to d ...

2010

Model checking transactional memories

Rachid Guerraoui, Vasu Singh

Model checking transactional memories (TMs) is difficult because of the unbounded number, length, and delay of concurrent transactions, as well as the unbounded size of the memory. We show that, under certain conditions satisfied by most TMs we know of, th ...

Springer Verlag2010

Asymmetric information embedding

Mohammad Amin Shokrollahi

In the Information Embedding Problem one is given a piece of data which can be altered only conditionally, for example only at certain places. One is then asked to embed an arbitrary message into the data by only applying admissible changes to the data. Th ...

Springer-Verlag2008

Scheduling Of Dataflow Models Within The Reconfigurable Video Coding Framework

Marco Mattavelli, Christophe Lucarz, Jani Boutellier

The upcoming Reconfigurable Video Coding (RVC) standard from MPEG (ISO/IEC SC29WG11) defines a library of coding tools to specify existing or new compressed video formats and decoders. The coding tool library has been written in a dataflow/actor-oriented l ...

IEEE2008

Scheduling Of Dataflow Models Within The Reconfigurable Video Coding Framework

Marco Mattavelli, Christophe Lucarz, Jani Boutellier

The upcoming Reconfigurable Video Coding (RVC) standard from MPEG (ISO/IEC SC29WG11) defines a library of coding tools to specify existing or new compressed video formats and decoders. The coding tool library has been written in a dataflow/actor-oriented l ...

2008

Algorithms for Interface Synthesis

Vasu Singh, Dirk Thilo Beyer

A temporal interface for a software component is a ﬁnite automaton that speciﬁes the legal sequences of calls to functions that are provided by the component. We compare and evaluate three different algorithms for automatically extracting temporal interfac ...

Springer2007

Soundness and Equivalence of Petri Nets and Annotated Finite State Automate: A Comparison in the SOA Context

A lot of work exists on notions of equivalence and soundness relations of different workflow models, which are used in different domains like e.g. Business Process Modeling, Software and Service Engineering. These definitions are based on different models, ...

IEEE2007

Efficient static analysis of XML paths and types

We present an algorithm to solve XPath decision problems under regular tree type constraints and show its use to statically type-check XPath queries. To this end, we prove the decidability of a logic with converse for finite ordered trees whose time comple ...

2007

Service specification verification and validation for the intelligent network

New architectures of telecommunications networks like the Intelligent Network (IN) proposal allow an ever easier way to introduce new services into a network. However, this facility and the short delays that can be achieved between the first informal speci ...

EPFL1995