How to write a coequation

F Dahlqvist, T Schmid - arxiv preprint arxiv:2109.11967, 2021 - arxiv.org
There is a large amount of literature on the topic of covarieties, coequations and
coequational specifications, dating back to the early seventies. Nevertheless, coequations …

Probabilistic guarded KAT modulo bisimilarity: Completeness and complexity

W Różowski, T Kappé, D Kozen, T Schmid… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We introduce Probabilistic Guarded Kleene Algebra with Tests (ProbGKAT), an extension of
GKAT that allows reasoning about uninterpreted imperative programs with probabilistic …

[PDF][PDF] A Complete Inference System for Skip-free Guarded Kleene Algebra with Tests.

T Schmid, T Kappé, A Silva - ESOP, 2023 - library.oapen.org
Guarded Kleene Algebra with Tests (GKAT) is a fragment of Kleene Algebra with Tests
(KAT) that was recently introduced to reason efficiently about imperative programs. In …

A completeness theorem for probabilistic regular expressions

W Różowski, A Silva - Proceedings of the 39th Annual ACM/IEEE …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
We introduce Probabilistic Regular Expressions (PRE), a probabilistic analogue of regular
expressions denoting probabilistic languages in which every word is assigned a probability …

Algebras for Deterministic Computation Are Inherently Incomplete

B ten Cate, T Kappé - Proceedings of the ACM on Programming …, 2025 - dl.acm.org
Kleene Algebra with Tests (KAT) provides an elegant algebraic framework for describing
non-deterministic finite-state computations. Using a small finite set of non-deterministic …

On star expressions and coalgebraic completeness theorems

T Schmid, J Rot, A Silva - arxiv preprint arxiv:2106.08074, 2021 - arxiv.org
An open problem posed by Milner asks for a proof that a certain axiomatisation, which Milner
showed is sound with respect to bisimilarity for regular expressions, is also complete. One of …

Processes parametrised by an algebraic theory

T Schmid, W Rozowski, A Silva, J Rot - arxiv preprint arxiv:2202.06901, 2022 - arxiv.org
We develop a (co) algebraic framework to study a family of process calculi with monadic
branching structures and recursion operators. Our framework features a uniform semantics …

Transition algebra for software testing

P Liu, Y Li, H Miao - IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Model-based testing has been highlighted in the last few decades. Many improvements
have been proposed for this testing method. One improvement is the use of extended …

Completeness and the finite model property for Kleene algebra, reconsidered

T Kappé - International Conference on Relational and Algebraic …, 2023 - Springer
Kleene Algebra (KA) is the algebra of regular expressions. Central to the study of KA is
Kozen's (1994) completeness result, which says that any equivalence valid in the language …

Guarded Kleene algebra with tests: Automata learning

S Zetzsche, A Silva… - Electronic Notes in …, 2023 - entics.episciences.org
Guarded Kleene Algebra with Tests (GKAT) is the fragment of Kleene Algebra with Tests
(KAT) that arises by replacing the union and iteration operations of KAT with predicate …