This thesis investigates deep pushdown automata and introduces their modification called controlled deep pushdown automata. Distributed deep pushdown automata systems and parallel communicating deep pushdown automata systems are described. Their accepting power and properties are investigated and several variants are introduced. This thesis proves that the accepting power of one such variant of parallel communicating deep pushdown automata systems is equal to the accepting power of Turing machines. A method for syntactical analysis based on the previously introduced automata systems is described.

This work deals with advanced models of context-free grammars and explores the possibilities of adaptation and usefulness for deterministic parsing of non-context-free sructures by deep parsing method. It introduces adapted model of context-free grammar named LL programmed grammar and adapted deep pushdown automaton that makes deterministic parsing of non-context-free structures possible.

Tato diplomová práce se zabývá zkoumáním nových verzí automatů a gramatik a je proto rozdělena do dvou částí. První část definuje a studuje čisté více zásobníkové automaty a navíc zavádí úplná uspořádání nad jejich zásobníky nebo zásobníkovými symboly. Práce dokazuje, že zavedená omezení snižují vyjadřovací sílu automatů. Ve druhé části práce jsou definovány a popsány nové derivační módy gramatik s rozptýleným kontextem, které zobecňují relaci přímé derivace. Je dokázáno, že jejich použití nesnižuje vyjadřovací sílu gramatik.

In this thesis, I focus on the application of deep pushdown automatons in compilers, their composition in the parser, and the possibility of further recovery. Thanks to these automatons can carry out the expansion of the nonterminals in various depths and thus makes it possible to use other records of expressions.

The thesis introduces new models for formal languages, the m-limited state   grammar and the deep pushdown automaton. Their basic definitions are presented,   so is their mutual equivalence and the characteristics of the language family they describe.   Following, a parsing method based on these models is presented. The method is an extension   of a similar method used for context-free languages, the table driven parsing.   The final part of the thesis describes the implementation of a parser based on the method.

In this dissertation, we study the verification of concurrent programs written in the programming language Erlang using infinite-state model-checking. Erlang is a widely used, higher order, dynamically typed, call-by-value functional language with algebraic data types and pattern-matching. It is further augmented with support for actor concurrency, i.e. asynchronous message passing and dynamic process creation. With decidable model-checking in mind, we identify actor communicating systems (ACS) as a suitable target model for an abstract interpretation of Erlang. ACS model a dynamic network of finite-state processes that communicate over a fixed, finite number of unordered, unbounded channels. Thanks to being equivalent to Petri nets, ACS enjoy good algorithmic properties. We develop a verification procedure that extracts a sound abstract model, in the form of an ACS, from a given Erlang program; the resulting ACS simulates the operational semantics of the input. Using this abstract model, we can conservatively verify coverability properties of the input program, i.e. a weak form of safety properties, with a Petri net model-checker. We have implemented this procedure in our tool Soter, which is the first sound verification tool for Erlang programs using infinite-state model-checking. In our experiments, we find that Soter is accurate enough to verify a range of interesting and non-trivial benchmarks. Even though ACS coverability is Expspace-complete, Soter's analysis of these verification problems is surprisingly quick. In order to improve the precision of our verification procedure with respect to recursion, we investigate an extension of ACS that allows pushdown processes: asynchronously communicating pushdown systems (ACPS). ACPS that satisfy the empty-stack constraint (a pushdown process may receive only when its stack is empty) are a popular subclass of ACPS with good decision and complexity properties. In the context of Erlang, the empty stack constraint is unfortunately not realistic. We introduce a relaxation of the empty-stack constraint for ACPS called the shaped stack constraint. Stacks that fit the shape constraint may reach arbitrary heights. Further, a process may execute any communication action (be it process creation, message send or retrieval) whether or not its stack is empty. We prove that coverability for shaped ACPS, i.e. ACPS that satisfy the shaped constraint, reduces to the decidable coverability problem for well-structured transition systems (WSTS). Thus, shaped ACPS enable the modelling and verification of a larger class of message passing programs. We establish a close connection between shaped ACPS and a novel extension of Petri nets: nets with nested coloured tokens (NNCT). Tokens in NNCT are of two types: simple and complex. Complex tokens carry an arbitrary number of coloured tokens. The rules of a NNCT can synchronise complex and simple tokens, inject coloured tokens into a complex token, and eject all tokens of a specified set of active colours to predefined places. We show that the coverability problem for NNCT is Tower-complete, a new complexity class for non-elementary decision problems introduced by Schmitz. To prove Tower-membership, we devise a geometrically inspired version of the Rackoff technique, and we obtain Tower-hardness by adapting Stockmeyer's ruler construction to NNCT. To our knowledge, NNCT is the first extension of Petri nets (belonging to the class of nets with an infinite set of token types) that is proven to have primitive recursive coverability. This result implies Tower-completeness of coverability for ACPS that satisfy the shaped stack constraint.

Ce mémoire est constitué de 3 parties.La NP-complétude de la satisfaction de combinaisons booléennes de contraintes de sous-arbres est démontrée dans l'article [Ven87] ; la partie I de ce mémoire étudie dans quelle mesure l'ajout de contraintes régulières laisse espérer conserver la complexité NP. Ce modèle étendu définit une nouvelle classe de langages dont l'expressivité est comparée à celle des Rigid Tree Automata [JKV11]. Puis un début de formalisation des t-dags est donné.Les patterns ont été étudiés, principalement du point de vue des contraintes sur les données qu'ils demandent. La partie II de ce mémoire les étudie plus finement, en mettant de côté les données. Les squelettes sont définis en tant qu'intermédiaire de calcul et le fait que leur syntaxe caractérise leur sémantique est démontré. Puis un lemme de pompage est donné dans un cas restreint, un autre dans le cas général est étudié et conjecturé. Ensuite des fragments de combinaisons booléennes de patterns sont comparés en expressivité pour terminer avec l'étude de la complexité des problèmes de model-checking, satisfaisabilité et DTD-satisfaisabilité sur les dits fragments.Le contenu de la partie III constitue l'article [FMS11], c'est la démonstration de la caractérisation des langages des automates fortement déterministes de niveau 2 par des systèmes d'équations récurrentes caténatives. Celle-ci utilise, entre autres, des techniques de réécriture, la notion d'inconnues non-réécrivables et les ordres noethériens. Cette caractérisation constitue le cas de base de la récurrence démontrée dans [Sén07]. / This thesis is in 3 parts.The NP-completeness of satisfiability of boolean combinations of subtree constraints is shown in the article [Ven87] ; in the part I of this thesis, we study whether adding regular contraints lets hope for keeping the same complexity. This extended model defines a new class of languages which is compared in expressivity to the Rigid Tree Automata [JKV11]. Then a begining of formalisation of the t-dags is developped.The patterns have been studied mainly from the point of view of the constraints they demand on the data. The part II of this thesis study them more finely, by putting aside the data. The skeletons are defined as calculus intermediate and the characterisation holding between their syntax and their semantics is shown. Then a pumping lemma is prooved in a restreict case, another one is conjectured in the most general case. Then fragments of boolean combinations of patterns are compared in expressivity, this parts ends with the study of complexity of model-checking, satisfiability and DTD-satisfiability on these fragments.The content of part III constitutes the article [FMS11], it is the demonstration of the characterisation of strongly-deterministic 2-level pushdown automata by recurrent catenative equation systems. This proof uses in particular, some rewriting techniques, unrewritable unknowns and noetherian orders. This characterisation provides the base case of the recurrence shown in [Sén07].

XML is an emerging standard format for data on the Web as well as in business applications. In order to store and access this information in an efficient manner, database technology must be utilized. A relational database system, the most established and mature technology for query processing and storage, creates a strong foundation for such an XML data management system. However, while relational databases are based on SQL queries, the original user queries are written in XQuery, an XML query language. This XML query language has support for order-sensitive queries as XML is an order-sensitive markup language. A major problem has been discovered with loading XML in a relational database. That problem is the lack of native SQL support for and management of order handling. While XQuery has order and positional support, SQL does not have the same support. For example, individuals who were viewing XML information about music albums would have a hard time querying for the first three songs of a track list from a relational backend. Mapping XML documents to relational backends also proves hard as the data models (hierarchical elements versus flat tables) are so different. For these reasons, and other purposes, the Rainbow System is being developed at WPI as a system that bridges XML data and relational data. This thesis in particular deals with the algebra operators that affect order, order sensitive loading and mapping of XML documents, and the pushdown of order handling into SQL-capable query engines. The contributions of the thesis are the order-sensitive rewrite rules, new XML to relational mappings with different order styles, order-sensitive template-driven SQL generation, and a proposed metadata table for order-sensitive information. A system that implements these proposed techniques with XQuery as the XML query language and Oracle as the backend relational storage system has been developed. Experiments were created to measure execution time based on various factors. First, scalability of the system as backend data set size grows is studied. Second, scalability of the system as results returned from the database grows, and finally, query execution times with different loading types are explored. The experimental results are encouraging. Query execution with the relational backend proves to be much faster than native execution within the Rainbow system. These results confirm the practical utility of our proposed order-sensitive XQuery execution solution over relational data.

Recently, multi-priced timed automata have received much attention for real-time systems. These automata extend priced timed automata by featuring several price parameters. This permits to compute objectives like the optimal ratio between rewards and costs. Arising from the model of timed automata, the multi-weighted setting has also attracted much notice for classical nondeterministic automata. The present thesis develops multi-weighted MSO-logics on finite, infinite and timed words which are expressively equivalent to multi-weighted automata, and studies decision problems for them. In addition, a Nivat-like theorem for weighted timed automata is proved; this theorem establishes a connection between quantitative and qualitative behaviors of timed automata. Moreover, a logical characterization of timed pushdown automata is given.

Cette recherche vise à établir les propriétés fondamentales d'un système formel aux preuves circulaires introduit par Santocanale, auquel on a rajouté la règle de coupure. On démontre, dans un premier temps, qu'il y a une pleine correspondance entre les preuves circulaires et les flèches issues des catégories dites µ-bicomplètes. Ces flèches sont celles que l'on peut définir purement à partir des outils suivants: les produits et coproduits finis, les algèbres initiales et les coalgèbres finales. Dans la catégorie des ensembles, les preuves circulaires dénotent donc les fonctions qu'on peut définir en utilisant les produits cartésiens finis, les unions disjointes finies, l'induction et la coinduction. On décrit également une procédure d'élimination des coupures qui produit, à partir d'une preuve circulaire finie, une preuve sans cycles et sans coupures, mais possiblement infinie. On démontre que l'élimination des coupures fournit une sémantique opérationnelle aux preuves circulaires, c'est-à-dire qu'elle permet de calculer les fonctions dénotées par celles-ci, par le moyen d'une sorte d'automate avec mémoire. Enfin, on s'intéresse au problème de la puissance expressive de cet éliminateur de coupures, c'est-à-dire à la question de caractériser la classe des expressions qu'il peut calculer. On démontre, par une simulation, que l'éliminateur des coupures est strictement plus expressif que les automates à pile d'ordre supérieur. / This research aims at establishing the fundamental properties of a formal system with circular proofs introduced by Santocanale, to which we added the cut rule. We first show that there is a full correspondence between circular proofs and arrows from the so-called µ-bicomplete categories. These arrows are those that can be defined purely from the following tools: finite products and coproducts, initial algebras and final coalgebras. In the category of sets, circular proofs denote functions that one can define by using finite cartesian products, finite disjoint unions, induction and coinduction. We also describe a cut-elimination procedure that produces, from a given finite circular proof, a proof without cycles and cuts, but which may be infinite. We prove that cut-elimination gives an operational semantics to circular proofs, which is to say that they allow to compute the functions denoted by them, by using a sort of automaton with memory. Finally, we are interested in finding the expressive power of that cut-eliminating automaton. In other words, we want to characterize the class of functions that it can compute. We show, through a simulation, that the cut-eliminating automaton is strictly more expressive than higher-order pushdown automata.