%0 Conference Proceedings %T Sensing as a Complexity Measure %+ Oxford Brookes University %+ Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme (LIP) %+ The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJ) %A Almagor, Shaull %A Kuperberg, Denis %A Kupferman, Orna %Z Part 1: Invited Papers %< avec comité de lecture %( Lecture Notes in Computer Science %B 19th International Conference on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems (DCFS) %C Milano, Italy %Y Giovanni Pighizzini %Y Cezar Câmpeanu %I Springer International Publishing %3 Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems %V LNCS-10316 %P 3-15 %8 2017-07-03 %D 2017 %R 10.1007/978-3-319-60252-3_1 %Z Computer Science [cs]Conference papers %X The size of deterministic automata required for recognizing regular and $\omega $-regular languages is a well-studied measure for the complexity of languages. We introduce and study a new complexity measure, based on the sensing required for recognizing the language. Intuitively, the sensing cost quantifies the detail in which a random input word has to be read in order to decide its membership in the language. We study the sensing cost of regular and $\omega $-regular languages, as well as applications of the study in practice, especially in the monitoring and synthesis of reactive systems. %G English %Z TC 1 %Z WG 1.2 %2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01657019/document %2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01657019/file/440206_1_En_1_Chapter.pdf %L hal-01657019 %U https://inria.hal.science/hal-01657019 %~ ENS-LYON %~ CNRS %~ INRIA %~ UNIV-LYON1 %~ LIP_PLUME %~ IFIP-LNCS %~ IFIP %~ IFIP-TC %~ IFIP-TC1 %~ IFIP-WG %~ INRIA2017 %~ IFIP-DCFS %~ IFIP-WG1-2 %~ IFIP-LNCS-10316 %~ INRIA-AUT %~ UDL %~ UNIV-LYON %~ INRIA-ROYAUMEUNI