4 Search Results for "Leshkowitz, Ofer"

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.57
Resolving Nondeterminism with Randomness

Authors: Thomas A. Henzinger, Aditya Prakash, and K. S. Thejaswini

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 345, 50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025)

Abstract
We define and study classes of ω-regular automata for which the nondeterminism can be resolved by a policy that uses a combination of memory and randomness on any input word, based solely on the prefix read so far. We examine two settings for providing the input word to an automaton. In the first setting, called adversarial resolvability, the input word is constructed letter-by-letter by an adversary, dependent on the resolver’s previous decisions. In the second setting, called stochastic resolvability, the adversary pre-commits to an infinite word and reveals it letter-by-letter. In each setting, we require the existence of an almost-sure resolver, i.e., a policy that ensures that as long as the adversary provides a word in the language of the underlying nondeterministic automaton, the run constructed by the policy is accepting with probability 1. The class of automata that are adversarially resolvable is the well-studied class of history-deterministic automata. The case of stochastically resolvable automata, on the other hand, defines a novel class. Restricting the class of resolvers in both settings to stochastic policies without memory introduces two additional new classes of automata. We show that the new automata classes offer interesting trade-offs between succinctness, expressivity, and computational complexity, providing a fine gradation between deterministic automata and nondeterministic automata.
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Thomas A. Henzinger, Aditya Prakash, and K. S. Thejaswini. Resolving Nondeterminism with Randomness. In 50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 345, pp. 57:1-57:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{henzinger_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.57,
  author =	{Henzinger, Thomas A. and Prakash, Aditya and Thejaswini, K. S.},
  title =	{{Resolving Nondeterminism with Randomness}},
  booktitle =	{50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025)},
  pages =	{57:1--57:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-388-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{345},
  editor =	{Gawrychowski, Pawe{\l} and Mazowiecki, Filip and Skrzypczak, Micha{\l}},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.57},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-241645},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.57},
  annote =	{Keywords: \omega-regular languages, History determinism, Stochastic strategies}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2022.42
Synthesis of Privacy-Preserving Systems

Authors: Orna Kupferman and Ofer Leshkowitz

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 250, 42nd IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2022)

Abstract
Synthesis is the automated construction of a system from its specification. In many cases, we want to maintain the privacy of the system and the environment, thus limit the information that they share with each other or with an observer of the interaction. We introduce a framework for synthesis that addresses privacy in a simple yet powerful way. Our method is based on specification formalisms that include an unknown truth value. When the system and the environment interact, they may keep the truth values of some input and output signals private, which may cause the satisfaction value of specifications to become unknown. The input to the synthesis problem contains, in addition to the specification φ, also secrets ψ_1,…,ψ_k. During the interaction, the system directs the environment which input signals should stay private. The system then realizes the specification if in all interactions, the satisfaction value of the specification φ is true, whereas the satisfaction value of the secrets ψ_1,…,ψ_k is unknown. Thus, the specification is satisfied without the secrets being revealed. We describe our framework for specifications and secrets in LTL, and extend the framework also to the multi-valued specification formalism LTL[F], which enables the specification of the quality of computations. When both the specification and secrets are in LTL[F], one can trade-off the satisfaction value of the specification with the extent to which the satisfaction values of the secrets are revealed. We show that the complexity of the problem in all settings is 2EXPTIME-complete, thus it is not harder than synthesis with no privacy requirements.
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Orna Kupferman and Ofer Leshkowitz. Synthesis of Privacy-Preserving Systems. In 42nd IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 250, pp. 42:1-42:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{kupferman_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2022.42,
  author =	{Kupferman, Orna and Leshkowitz, Ofer},
  title =	{{Synthesis of Privacy-Preserving Systems}},
  booktitle =	{42nd IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2022)},
  pages =	{42:1--42:23},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-261-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{250},
  editor =	{Dawar, Anuj and Guruswami, Venkatesan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2022.42},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-174342},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2022.42},
  annote =	{Keywords: Synthesis, Privacy, LTL, Games}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.85
A Hierarchy of Nondeterminism

Authors: Bader Abu Radi, Orna Kupferman, and Ofer Leshkowitz

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 202, 46th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2021)

Abstract
We study three levels in a hierarchy of nondeterminism: A nondeterministic automaton A is determinizable by pruning (DBP) if we can obtain a deterministic automaton equivalent to A by removing some of its transitions. Then, A is good-for-games (GFG) if its nondeterministic choices can be resolved in a way that only depends on the past. Finally, A is semantically deterministic (SD) if different nondeterministic choices in A lead to equivalent states. Some applications of automata in formal methods require deterministic automata, yet in fact can use automata with some level of nondeterminism. For example, DBP automata are useful in the analysis of online algorithms, and GFG automata are useful in synthesis and control. For automata on finite words, the three levels in the hierarchy coincide. We study the hierarchy for Büchi, co-Büchi, and weak automata on infinite words. We show that the hierarchy is strict, study the expressive power of the different levels in it, as well as the complexity of deciding the membership of a language in a given level. Finally, we describe a probability-based analysis of the hierarchy, which relates the level of nondeterminism with the probability that a random run on a word in the language is accepting.
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Bader Abu Radi, Orna Kupferman, and Ofer Leshkowitz. A Hierarchy of Nondeterminism. In 46th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 202, pp. 85:1-85:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@InProceedings{aburadi_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.85,
  author =	{Abu Radi, Bader and Kupferman, Orna and Leshkowitz, Ofer},
  title =	{{A Hierarchy of Nondeterminism}},
  booktitle =	{46th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2021)},
  pages =	{85:1--85:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-201-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{202},
  editor =	{Bonchi, Filippo and Puglisi, Simon J.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.85},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-145254},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.85},
  annote =	{Keywords: Automata on Infinite Words, Expressive power, Complexity, Games}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.59
On Repetition Languages

Authors: Orna Kupferman and Ofer Leshkowitz

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 170, 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2020)

Abstract
A regular language R of finite words induces three repetition languages of infinite words: the language lim(R), which contains words with infinitely many prefixes in R, the language ∞ R, which contains words with infinitely many disjoint subwords in R, and the language R^ω, which contains infinite concatenations of words in R. Specifying behaviors, the three repetition languages provide three different ways of turning a specification of a finite behavior into an infinite one. We study the expressive power required for recognizing repetition languages, in particular whether they can always be recognized by a deterministic Büchi word automaton (DBW), the blow up in going from an automaton for R to automata for the repetition languages, and the complexity of related decision problems. For lim R and ∞ R, most of these problems have already been studied or are easy. We focus on R^ω. Its study involves some new and interesting results about additional repetition languages, in particular R^#, which contains exactly all words with unboundedly many concatenations of words in R. We show that R^ω is DBW-recognizable iff R^# is ω-regular iff R^# = R^ω, and there are languages for which these criteria do not hold. Thus, R^ω need not be DBW-recognizable. In addition, when exists, the construction of a DBW for R^ω may involve a 2^{O(n log n)} blow-up, and deciding whether R^ω is DBW-recognizable, for R given by a nondeterministic automaton, is PSPACE-complete. Finally, we lift the difference between R^# and R^ω to automata on finite words and study a variant of Büchi automata where a word is accepted if (possibly different) runs on it visit accepting states unboundedly many times.
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Orna Kupferman and Ofer Leshkowitz. On Repetition Languages. In 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 170, pp. 59:1-59:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{kupferman_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.59,
  author =	{Kupferman, Orna and Leshkowitz, Ofer},
  title =	{{On Repetition Languages}},
  booktitle =	{45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2020)},
  pages =	{59:1--59:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-159-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{170},
  editor =	{Esparza, Javier and Kr\'{a}l', Daniel},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.59},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-127268},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.59},
  annote =	{Keywords: B\"{u}chi automata, Expressive power, Succinctness}
}
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