3 Search Results for "Todtenhoefer, Jennifer"

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.8
Dynamic Membership for Regular Tree Languages

Authors: Antoine Amarilli, Corentin Barloy, Louis Jachiet, and Charles Paperman

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

Abstract
We study the dynamic membership problem for regular tree languages under relabeling updates: we fix an alphabet Σ and a regular tree language L over Σ (expressed, e.g., as a tree automaton), we are given a tree T with labels in Σ, and we must maintain the information of whether the tree T belongs to L while handling relabeling updates that change the labels of individual nodes in T. Our first contribution is to show that this problem admits an O(log n / log log n) algorithm for any fixed regular tree language, improving over known O(log n) algorithms. This generalizes the known O(log n / log log n) upper bound over words, and it matches the lower bound of Ω(log n / log log n) from dynamic membership to some word languages and from the existential marked ancestor problem. Our second contribution is to introduce a class of regular languages, dubbed almost-commutative tree languages, and show that dynamic membership to such languages under relabeling updates can be decided in constant time per update. Almost-commutative languages generalize both commutative languages and finite languages: they are the analogue for trees of the ZG languages enjoying constant-time dynamic membership over words. Our main technical contribution is to show that this class is conditionally optimal when we assume that the alphabet features a neutral letter, i.e., a letter that has no effect on membership to the language. More precisely, we show that any regular tree language with a neutral letter which is not almost-commutative cannot be maintained in constant time under the assumption that the prefix-U1 problem from [Antoine Amarilli et al., 2021] also does not admit a constant-time algorithm.
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Antoine Amarilli, Corentin Barloy, Louis Jachiet, and Charles Paperman. Dynamic Membership for Regular Tree Languages. In 50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 345, pp. 8:1-8:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{amarilli_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.8,
  author =	{Amarilli, Antoine and Barloy, Corentin and Jachiet, Louis and Paperman, Charles},
  title =	{{Dynamic Membership for Regular Tree Languages}},
  booktitle =	{50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025)},
  pages =	{8:1--8:18},
  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.2025.8},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-241155},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.8},
  annote =	{Keywords: automaton, dynamic membership, incremental maintenance, forest algebra}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.81
On the Work of Dynamic Constant-Time Parallel Algorithms for Regular Tree Languages and Context-Free Languages

Authors: Jonas Schmidt, Thomas Schwentick, and Jennifer Todtenhoefer

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 272, 48th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2023)

Abstract
Previous work on Dynamic Complexity has established that there exist dynamic constant-time parallel algorithms for regular tree languages and context-free languages under label or symbol changes. However, these algorithms were not developed with the goal to minimise work (or, equivalently, the number of processors). In fact, their inspection yields the work bounds 𝒪(n²) and 𝒪(n⁷) per change operation, respectively. In this paper, dynamic algorithms for regular tree languages are proposed that generalise the previous algorithms in that they allow unbounded node rank and leaf insertions, while improving the work bound from 𝒪(n²) to 𝒪(n^ε), for arbitrary ε > 0. For context-free languages, algorithms with better work bounds (compared with 𝒪(n⁷)) for restricted classes are proposed: for every ε > 0 there are such algorithms for deterministic context-free languages with work bound 𝒪(n^{3+ε}) and for visibly pushdown languages with work bound 𝒪(n^{2+ε}).
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Jonas Schmidt, Thomas Schwentick, and Jennifer Todtenhoefer. On the Work of Dynamic Constant-Time Parallel Algorithms for Regular Tree Languages and Context-Free Languages. In 48th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 272, pp. 81:1-81:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{schmidt_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.81,
  author =	{Schmidt, Jonas and Schwentick, Thomas and Todtenhoefer, Jennifer},
  title =	{{On the Work of Dynamic Constant-Time Parallel Algorithms for Regular Tree Languages and Context-Free Languages}},
  booktitle =	{48th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2023)},
  pages =	{81:1--81:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-292-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{272},
  editor =	{Leroux, J\'{e}r\^{o}me and Lombardy, Sylvain and Peleg, David},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.81},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-186152},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.81},
  annote =	{Keywords: Dynamic complexity, work, parallel constant time}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2023.16
Work-Efficient Query Evaluation with PRAMs

Authors: Jens Keppeler, Thomas Schwentick, and Christopher Spinrath

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 255, 26th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2023)

Abstract
The paper studies query evaluation in parallel constant time in the PRAM model. While it is well-known that all relational algebra queries can be evaluated in constant time on an appropriate CRCW-PRAM, this paper is interested in the efficiency of evaluation algorithms, that is, in the number of processors or, asymptotically equivalent, in the work. Naive evaluation in the parallel setting results in huge (polynomial) bounds on the work of such algorithms and in presentations of the result sets that can be extremely scattered in memory. The paper first discusses some obstacles for constant time PRAM query evaluation. It presents algorithms for relational operators that are considerably more efficient than the naive approaches. Further it explores three settings, in which efficient sequential query evaluation algorithms exist: acyclic queries, semi-join algebra queries, and join queries - the latter in the worst-case optimal framework. Under natural assumptions on the representation of the database, the work of the given algorithms matches the best sequential algorithms in the case of semi-join queries, and it comes close in the other two settings. An important tool is the compaction technique from Hagerup (1992).
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Jens Keppeler, Thomas Schwentick, and Christopher Spinrath. Work-Efficient Query Evaluation with PRAMs. In 26th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 255, pp. 16:1-16:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{keppeler_et_al:LIPIcs.ICDT.2023.16,
  author =	{Keppeler, Jens and Schwentick, Thomas and Spinrath, Christopher},
  title =	{{Work-Efficient Query Evaluation with PRAMs}},
  booktitle =	{26th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2023)},
  pages =	{16:1--16:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-270-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{255},
  editor =	{Geerts, Floris and Vandevoort, Brecht},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2023.16},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-177589},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2023.16},
  annote =	{Keywords: PRAM, query evaluation, work-efficient, parallel, acyclic queries, free-connex queries}
}
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