We describe an automata-theoretic approach for the competitive analysis of online algorithms. Our approach is based on weighted automata, which assign to each input word a cost in...
Abstract. In the traditional Boolean setting of formal verification, alternating automata are the key to many algorithms and tools. In this setting, the correspondence between dis...
The application of statistical methods to natural language processing has been remarkably successful over the past two decades. But, to deal with recent problems arising in this ...
While a mature theory around logics such as MSO, LTL, and CTL has been developed in the pure boolean setting of finite automata, weighted automata lack such a natural connection wi...