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Finite automata over structures

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In this paper, a finite automata model for performing computations over an arbitrary structure is introduced, where the automaton processes sequences of elements in the structure and makes state transitions.
Abstract
We introduce a finite automata model for performing computations over an arbitrary structure $\mathcal S$ . The automaton processes sequences of elements in $\mathcal S$ . While processing the sequence, the automaton tests atomic relations, performs atomic operations of the structure $\mathcal S$ , and makes state transitions. In this setting, we study several problems such as closure properties, validation problem and emptiness problems. We investigate the dependence of deciding these problems on the underlying structures and the number of registers of our model of automata. Our investigation demonstrates that some of these properties are related to the existential first order fragments of the underlying structures.

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A Survey on Analog Models of Computation.

TL;DR: A survey on analog models of computations, which considers both approaches, often intertwined, with a point of view mostly oriented by computation theory.
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Generalized finite automata over real and complex numbers

TL;DR: This paper proves several structural results about sets accepted by such automata, and analyzes decidability as well as complexity of several classical questions about automata in the new framework.
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Recognizable series on graphs and hypergraphs

TL;DR: A computational model that generically associates a tensor network to a graph or a hypergraph and then computes a value by generalized tensor contractions directed by its hyperedges, which generalizes the notion of recognizable series on strings and trees.
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Generalized Finite Automata over Real and Complex Numbers

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TL;DR: This work introduced and studied a generalized model of finite automata able to work over arbitrary structures and identified studying such automata over partciular structures such as real and algebraically closed fields as one relevant area of research for this model.
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Periodic Generalized Automata over the Reals

TL;DR: A generalized model of finite automata able to work over arbitrary structures but has an additional ability to perform in a restricted way operations attached to the structure under consideration.
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Disjunctive Tautologies as Synchronisation Schemes

TL;DR: In the ambient logic of classical second order propositional calculus, the specification problem for a family of excluded middle like tautologies is solved and these are shown to be realized by sequential simulations of specific communication schemes for which they provide a safe typing mechanism.
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Computational Adequacy in an Elementary Topos

TL;DR: It is proved that computational adequacy holds if and only if the topos is 1-consistent (i.e. its internal logic validates only true Σ\(^{\rm 0}_{\rm 1}\)-sentences).
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Recursive Unsolvability of Post's Problem of "Tag" and other Topics in Theory of Turing Machines

TL;DR: The main results of this paper show that the same notions of computability can be realized within the highly restricted monogenic formal systems called by Post the "Tag" systems, and within a peculiarly restricted variant of Turing machine which has two tapes, but can neither write on nor erase these tapes.