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Expressiveness and closure properties for quantitative languages

par Chatterjee, Krishnendu;Doyen, Laurent ;Henzinger, Thomas A.
Référence Proceedings - Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, page (199-208), 5230579
Publication Publié, 2009

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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 maximum, limsup, liminf, limit average, or discounted sum of the transition weights. We study expressiveness and closure questions about these quantitative languages. We first show that the set of words with value greater than a threshold can be non-ω-Regular for deterministic limit-average and discounted-sum automata, while this set is always ω-regular when the threshold is isolated (i.e., some neighborhood around the threshold contains no word). In the latter case, we prove that the ω-regular language is robust against small perturbations of the transition weights. We next consider automata with transition weights 0 or 1 and show that they are as expressive as general weighted automata in the limit-average case, but not in the discountedsum case. Third, for quantitative languages L1 and L2, we consider the operations max(L1,L2), min(L 1,L2), and 1-L1, which generalize the boolean operations on languages, as well as the sum L1 + L2. We establish the closure properties of all classes of quantitative languages with respect to these four operations. © 2009 IEEE.