Abstract. Building on the celebrated Krohn-Rhodes Theorem we characterize classes of regular languages in terms of the cascade decompositions of minimal DFA of languages in those c...
We describe the expressive power of temporal branching time logics that use the modalities EX and EF. We give a forbidden pattern characterization of the tree languages definable...
Local (first order) sentences, introduced by Ressayre, enjoy very nice decidability properties, following from some stretching theorems stating some remarkable links between the ...
We introduce the class of Rigid Tree Automata (RTA), an extension of standard bottom-up automata on ranked trees with distinguished states called rigid. Rigid states define a rest...
The new Associative Language Description (ALD) model, a combination of locally testable and constituent structure ideas, is proposed, arguing that in practice it equals context-fr...