Departmental Papers (CIS)

Date of this Version

2013

Document Type

Conference Paper

Comments

The conference was held June 25-28, 2013, in New Orleans, LA.

Abstract

We propose a deterministic model for associating costs with strings that is parameterized by operations of interest (such as addition, scaling, and minimum), a notion of regularity that provides a yardstick to measure expressiveness, and study decision problems and theoretical properties of resulting classes of cost functions. Our definition of regularity relies on the theory of string-to-tree transducers, and allows associating costs with events that are conditioned on regular properties of future events. Our model of cost register automata allows computation of regular functions using multiple “write-only” registers whose values can be combined using the allowed set of operations. We show that the classical shortest-path algorithms as well as the algorithms designed for computing discounted costs can be adapted for solving the min-cost problems for the more general classes of functions specified in our model. Cost register automata with the operations of minimum and increment give a deterministic model that is equivalent to weighted automata, an extensively studied nondeterministic model, and this connection results in new insights and new open problems.

Subject Area

CPS Theory

Publication Source

28th Annual IEEE/ACM Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS)

Start Page

13

Last Page

22

DOI

10.1109/LICS.2013.65

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Keywords

deterministic automata, graph theory, cost function, cost register automata, deterministic model, min-cost problem, regular function, shortest-path algorithm, string-to-tree transducer, weighted automata, automata, commutation, computational modeling, cost function, grammar, registers, transducers

Bib Tex

@INPROCEEDINGS{6571532,
author={Alur, R. and D'Antoni, L. and Deshmukh, J. and Raghothaman, M. and Yifei Yuan},
booktitle={Logic in Computer Science (LICS), 2013 28th Annual IEEE/ACM Symposium on},
title={Regular Functions and Cost Register Automata},
year={2013},
month={June},
pages={13-22},
keywords={deterministic automata;graph theory;cost function;cost register automata;deterministic model;min-cost problem;regular function;shortest-path algorithm;string-to-tree transducer;weighted automata;Automata;Commutation;Computational modeling;Cost function;Grammar;Registers;Transducers},
doi={10.1109/LICS.2013.65}, ISSN={1043-6871},}

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Date Posted: 18 July 2012