Cette thèse étudie les structures dont la théorie au second ordremonadique est décidable, et en particulier la hiérarchie à pile. Onpeut définir celle-ci comme la hiérarchie pour $n$ des graphesd'automates à piles imbriquées $n$ fois ; une définition externe, partransformations de graphes, est également disponible. Nous nousintéressons à l'exemple des ordinaux. Nous montrons que les ordinauxplus petits que $epsilon_0$ sont dans la hiérarchie, ainsi que des graphesporteurs de plus d'information, que l'on appelle "graphecouvrants''. Nous montrons ensuite l'inverse : tous les ordinaux de lahiérarchie sont plus petits que $epsilon_0$. Ce résultat utilise le fait queles ordres d'un niveau sont en fait isomorphes aux structures desfeuilles des arbres déterministes dans l'ordre lexicographique, aumême niveau. Plus généralement, nous obtenons une caractérisation desordres linéaires dispersés dans la hiérarchie. Dans un troisièmetemps, nous resserons l'intérêt aux ordres de type $omega$ --- les mots infinis --- pour montrer que les mots du niveau 2 sont les motsmorphiques, ce qui nous amène à une nouvelle extension au niveau 3 / This thesis studies the structures with decidable monadic second-ordertheory, and in particular the pushdown hierarchy. The latter can bedefined as the family for $n$ of pushdown graphs with $n$ timesimbricated stacks ; another definition is by graph transformations. Westudy the example of ordinals. We show that ordinals smaller that $epsilon_0$are in the hierarchy, along with graphs called "covering graphs'', which carry more data than ordinals. We show then the converse : allordinals of the hierarchy are smaller than $epsilon_0$. This result uses thefact that linear orders of a level are actually isomorphic to thestructure of leaves of deterministic trees by lexicographic ordering, at the same level. More generally, we obtain a characterisation ofscattered linear orders in the hierarchy. We finally focus on the caseof orders of type $omega$ --- infinite words --- and show that morphicwords are exactly words of the second level of the hierarchy. Thisleads us to a new definition of words for level 3

La vérification de propriétés de sûreté des logiciels distribués basés sur des canaux fifo non bornés et fiables mène directement au model checking de systèmes infinis. Nous introduisons la famille des (q)ueueing (c)oncurrent (p)rocesses (QCP) composant des systèmes de transitions locaux, par exemple des automates finis/à pile, qui communiquent entre eux par des files fifo. Le problème d'atteignabilité des états de contrôle est indécidable pour des automates communicants et des automates à plusieurs piles, et par conséquent pour QCP.Nous présentons deux solutions pour contourner ce résultat négatif :Primo, une sur-approximation basée sur l'approche abstraire-tester-raffiner qui s'appuie sur notre nouveau concept de raffinement par chemin. Cette approche mène à permettre d'écrire un semi-algorithme du type CEGAR qui est implémenté avec des QDD et réalisé dans le framework McScM dont le banc d'essai conclut notre présentation.Secundo, nous proposons des restrictions pour les QCP à des piles locales pour démêler l'interaction causale entre les données locales (la pile), et la synchronisation globale. Nous montrons qu'en supposant qu'il existe une borne existentielle sur les exécutions et qu'en ajoutant une condition sur l'architecture, qui entrave la synchronisation de deux piles, on arrive à une réponse positive pour le problème de décidabilité de l'atteignabilité qui est EXPTime-complet (et qui généralise des résultats déjà connus). La construction de base repose sur une simulation du système par un automate à une pile équivalent du point de vue de l'atteignabilité --- sous-jacente, nos deux restrictions restreignent les exécutions à une forme hors-contexte. Nous montrons aussi que ces contraintes apparaissent souvent dans des situations ``concrètes''et qu'elles sont moins restrictives que celles actuellement connues. Une autre possibilité pour arriver à une solution pratiquement utilisable consiste à supposer une borne du problème de décidabilité : nous montrons que l'atteignabilité par un nombre borné de phases est décidable par un algorithme constructif qui est 2EXPTime-complet.Finalement, nous montrons qu'élargir les résultats positifs ci-dessus à la vérification de la logique linéaire temporelle demande soit de sacrifier l'expressivité de la logique soit d'ajouter des restrictions assez fortes aux QCP --- deux restrictions qui rendent cette approche inutilisable en pratique. En réutilisant notre argument de type ``hors-contexte'', nous représentons l'ordre partiel sous-jacent aux exécutions par des grammaires hypergraphes. Cela nous permet de bénéficier de résultats connus concertant le model checking des formules de la logique MSO sur les graphes (avec largeur arborescente bornée), et d'arriver aux premiers résultats concernant la vérification des propriétés sur l'ordre partiel des automates (à pile) communicants. / The safety verification of distributed programs, that are based on reliable, unbounded fifo communication, leads in a straight line to model checking of infinite state systems. We introduce the family of (q)ueueing (c)oncurrent (p)rocesses (QCP): local transition systems, e.g., (pushdown-)automata, that are globally communicating over fifo channels. QCP inherits thus the known negative answers to the control-state reachability question from its members, above all from communicating automata and multi-stack pushdown systems. A feasible resolution of this question is, however, the corner stone for safety verification.We present two solutions to this intricacy: first, an over-approximation in the form of an abstract-check-refine algorithm on top of our novel notion of path invariant based refinement. This leads to a \cegar semi-algorithm that is implemented with the help of QDD and realized in a small software framework (McScM); the latter is benchmarked on a series ofsmall example protocols. Second, we propose restrictions for QCP with local pushdowns that untangle the causal interaction of local data, i.e., thestack, and global synchronization. We prove that an existential boundedness condition on runs together with an architectural restriction, that impedes the synchronization of two pushdowns, is sufficient and leads to an EXPTime-complete decision procedure (thus subsuming and generalizing known results). The underlying construction relies on a control-state reachability equivalent simulation on a single pushdown automaton, i.e., the context-freeness of the runs under the previous restrictions. We can demonstrate that our constraints arise ``naturally'' in certain classes of practical situations and are less restrictive than currently known ones. Another possibility to gain a practicable solution to safety verification involves limiting the decision question itself: we show that bounded phase reachability is decidable by a constructive algorithms in 2ExpTime, which is complete.Finally, trying to directly extend the previous positive results to model checking of linear temporal logic is not possible withouteither sacrificing expressivity or adding strong restrictions (i.e., that are not usable in practice). However, we can lift our context-freeness argument via hyperedge replacement grammars to graph-like representation of the partial order underlying each run of a QCP. Thus, we can directly apply the well-known results on MSO model checking on graphs (of bounded treewidth) to our setting and derive first results on verifying partial order properties on communicating (pushdown-) automata.

Visibly Pushdown Languages (VPLs), recognized by Visibly Pushdown Automata (VPAs), are a nicely behaved family of context-free languages. It has been shown that VPAs are equivalent to Extended Document Type Definitions (EDTDs), and thus, they provide means for elegantly solving various problems on XML. One of the important problems about XML that can be addressed using VPAs is the validation problem in which we need to decide whether an XML document con- forms to the schema specification given by an EDTD. In this thesis, we are interested in solving the approximate version of this problem, which is to decide whether an XML document can be modified by a tolerable number of edit operations to yield a valid one with respect to a given EDTD. For this, we define Edit Visibly Pushdown Transducers (EVPTs) that give us the framework for solving this problem ([23]). We propose two algorithms; the first algorithm solves the approximate validation for any EDTD in PTIME. The second algorithm solves the same problem for an interesting subclass of EDTDs (those rec- ognizable by FSA) in constant space using only a single pass over the document.

L’étude des automates est un sujet fondamental de l’informatique. Ce modèle apporte des solutions pratiques à divers problèmes en compilation et en vérification notamment. Dans ce travail nous proposons l'extension aux automates à pile visible de résultats existants pour les automates. Nous proposons une définition d'automate à pile visible émondé et donnons un algorithme s’exécutant en temps polynomial émondant un automate en préservant son langage. Nous donnons aussi un algorithme de complexité exponentielle qui, pour un automate à pile visible donné, construit un automate équivalent à la fois émondé et déterministe. Cette complexité exponentielle se révèle optimale. Étant donné un automate à pile visible, nous pouvons associer à ses transitions des coûts pris dans un semi-anneau S. L’automate associe ainsi un mot d’entrée à un élément de S. Le coût d’un automate est le supremum des coûts associés aux mots d'entrée. Pour les semi-anneaux des entiers naturels et Max-plus, nous donnons des caractérisations et des algorithmes polynomiaux pour décider si le coût d’un automate est fini. Puis, nous étudions pour les entiers naturels la complexité du problème de la majoration du coût par un entier k. Les transducteurs à pile visibles produisent des sorties sur chaque mot accepté. Un problème classique est de décider s'il existe une borne sur le nombre de sorties de chaque mot accepté. Pour une sous-classe des transducteurs à pile visible, nous proposons des propriétés caractérisant les instances positives de ce problème. Nous montrons leur nécessité et discutons d’approches possibles afin de montrer leur suffisance. / The study of automata is a central subject of computer science. This model provides practical solutions to several problems including compilation and verification. In this work we extend existing results of automata to visibly pushdown automata. We give a definition of trimmed visibly pushdown automata and a polynomial time algorithm to trim an automata while preserving its language. We also provide an exponential time algorithm which, given a visibly pushdown automaton, produces an equivalent automaton, both deterministic and trimmed. We prove the optimality of the complexity. Given a visibly pushdown automaton, we can equip its transitions with a cost taken from a semiring S, and thus associate each input word to an element of S. The cost of the automaton is the supremum of the input words cost. For the semiring of natural integers and Max-plus, we give characterisations and polynomial time algorithms to decide if the cost of a visibly pushdown automaton is finite. Then in the case of natural integers we study the complexity of deciding if the cost is bounded by a given integer k. Visibly pushdown transducers produce output on each accepted word. A classical problem is to decide if there exists a bound on the number of outputs of each accepted word. In the case of a subclass of visibly pushdown transducers, we give properties characterizing positive instances of this problem. We show their necessity and discuss of possible approaches to prove their sufficiency.

This document defines systems of pushdown transducers. The idea of cooperating distributed grammar systems for components working on one word is adjusted for use of transducers instead of grammars. The transducers cooperate by passing output of one to input of another component. It discusses their descriptive power and equivalency between systems with arbitrary numbers of components. The main conclusion is then comparison of their descriptive power with Turing machines with regard to their translation and accepted languages.

Büchi, Elgot and Trakhtenbrot provided a seminal connection between monadic second-order logic and finite automata for both finite and infinite words. This BET- Theorem has been extended by Lautemann, Schwentick and Thérien to context-free languages by introducing a monadic second-order logic with an additional existentially quantified second-order variable. This new variable models the stack of pushdown au- tomata. A fundamental study by Cohen and Gold extended the context-free languages to infinite words. Our first main result is a second-order logic in the sense of Lautemann, Schwentick and Thérien with the same expressive power as ω-context-free languages. For our argument, we investigate Greibach normal forms of ω-context-free grammars as well as a new type of Büchi pushdown automata, the simple pushdown automata. Simple pushdown automata do not use e-transitions and can change the stack only by at most one symbol. We show that simple pushdown automata of infinite words suffice to accept all ω-context-free languages. This enables us to use Büchi-type results recently developed for infinite nested words. In weighted automata theory, many classical results on formal languages have been extended into a quantitative setting. Weighted context-free languages of finite words trace back already to Chomsky and Schützenberger. Their work has been extended to infinite words by Ésik and Kuich. As in the theory of formal grammars, these weighted ω-context-free languages, or ω-algebraic series, can be represented as solutions of mixed ω-algebraic systems of equations and by weighted ω-pushdown automata. In our second main result, we show that (mixed) ω-algebraic systems can be trans- formed into Greibach normal form. We then investigate simple pushdown automata in the weighted setting. Here, we give our third main result. We prove that weighted simple pushdown automata of finite words recognize all weighted context-free languages, i.e., generate all algebraic series. Then, we show that weighted simple ω-pushdown automata generate all ω-algebraic series. This latter result uses the former result together with the Greibach normal form that we developed for ω-algebraic systems. As a fourth main result, we prove that for weighted simple ω-pushdown automata, Büchi-acceptance and Muller-acceptance are expressively equivalent. In our fifth main result, we derive a Nivat-like theorem for weighted simple ω- pushdown automata. This theorem states that the behaviors of our automata are precisely the projections of very simple ω-series restricted to ω-context-free languages. The last result, our sixth main result, is a weighted logic with the same expressive power as weighted simple ω-pushdown automata. To prove the equivalence, we use a similar result for weighted nested ω-word automata and apply our present result of expressive equivalence of Muller and Büchi acceptance.

This thesis introduces syntax-directed translation based on deep pushdown automata. Necessary theoretical models are introduced in the theoretical part. The most important model, introduced in this thesis, is a deep pushdown transducer. The transducer should be used in syntax analysis, significant part of translation. Practical part consists of an implementation of simple-language interpret based on these models.

Vues de sécurité xml : requêtes, mises à jour, et schémas. Les évolutions technologiques ont consacré l'émergence des services web et du stockage des données en ligne, en complément des bases de données traditionnelles. Ces évolutions facilitent l'accès aux données, mais en contrepartie soulèvent de nouvelles problématiques de sécurité. La mise en œuvre de politiques de contrôle d'accès appropriées est une des approches permettant de réduire ces risques.Nous étudions ici les politiques de contrôle d'accès au niveau d'un document XML, politiques que nous modélisons par des vues de sécurité XML (non matérialisées) à l'instar de Fan et al. Ces vues peuvent être représentées facilement par des alignements d'arbres grâce à l'absence d'opérateurs arithmétiques ou de restructuration. Notre objectif est par conséquent d'examiner comment manipuler efficacement ce type de vues, à l'aide des méthodes formelles, et plus particulièrement des techniques de réécriture de requêtes et la théorie des automates d'arbres. Trois directions principales ont orienté nos recherches: nous avons tout d'abord élaboré des algorithmes pour évaluer l'expressivité d'une vue, en fonction des requêtes qui peuvent être exprimées à travers cette vue. Il s'avère que l'on ne peut décider en général si une vue permet d'exprimer une requête particulière, mais cela devient possible lorsque la vue satisfait des hypothèses générales. En second lieu, nous avons considéré les problèmes soulevés par la mises à jour du document à travers une vue. Enfin, nous proposons des solutions pour construire automatiquement un schéma de la vue. En particulier, nous présentons différentes techniques pour représenter de façon approchée l'ensemble des documents au moyen d'une DTD.

Graph-structured data (GSD) is a popular model to represent complex information in a wide variety of applications such as social networks, biological data management, digital libraries, and traffic networks. The flexibility of this model allows the information to evolve and easily integrate with heterogeneous data from many sources. In this dissertation we study three important problems on GSD. A consistent theme of our work is the use of automata methods and techniques to process and reason about GSD. First, we address the problem of answering queries on GSD in a distributed environment. We focus on regular path queries (RPQs) – given by regular expressions matching paths in graph-data. RPQs are the building blocks of almost any mechanism for querying GSD. We present a fault-tolerant, message-efficient, and truly distributed algorithm for answering RPQs. Our algorithm works for the larger class of weighted RPQs on weighted GSDs. Second, we consider the problem of answering RPQs on incomplete GSD, where different data sources are represented by materialized database views. We explore the connection between “certain answers” (CAs) and answers obtained from “view-based rewritings” (VBRs) for RPQs. CAs are answers that can be obtained on each database consistent with the views. Computing all of CAs for RPQs is NP-hard, and one has to resort to an exponential algorithm in the size of the data–view materializations. On the other hand, VBRs are query reformulations in terms of the view definitions. They can be used to obtain query answers in polynomial time in the size of the data. These answers are CAs, but unfortunately for RPQs, not all of the CAs can be obtained in this way. In this work, we show the surprising result that for RPQs under local semantics, using VBRs to answer RPQs gives all the CAs. The importance of this result is that under such semantics, the CAs can be obtained in polynomial time in the size of the data. Third, we focus on XML–an important special case of GSD. The scenario we consider is streaming XML between exchanging parties. The problem we study is flexible validation of streaming XML under the realistic assumption that the schemas of the exchanging parties evolve, and thus diverge from one another. We represent schemas by using Visibly Pushdown Automata (VPAs), which recognize Visibly Pushdown Languages (VPLs). We model evolution for XML by defining formal language operators on VPLs. We show that VPLs are closed under the defined language operators and this enables us to expand the schemas (for XML) in order to account for flexible or constrained evolution. / Graduate

The present work proposes visibly pushdown transducers (VPTs) for defining transformations of documents with a nesting structure. We show that this subclass of pushdown transducers enjoy good properties. Notably, we show that functionality is decidable in PTime and k-valuedness in co-NPTime. While this class is not closed under composition and its type checking problem against visibly pushdown automata is undecidable, we identify a subclass, the well-nested VPTs, closed under composition and with a decidable type checking problem. Furthermore, we show that the class of VPTs is closed under look-ahead, and that the deterministic VPTs with look-ahead characterize the functional VPTs transductions. Finally, we investigate the resources necessary to perform transformations defined by VPTs. We devise a memory efficient algorithm. Then we show that it is decidable whether a VPT transduction can be performed with a memory that depends on the level of nesting of the input document but not on its length. / Doctorat en Sciences de l'ingénieur / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished