Title
Almost linear büchi automata
Abstract
We introduce a new fragment of linear temporal logic (LTL) called LIO and a new class of Büchi automata (BA) called almost linear Büchi automata (ALBA). We provide effective translations between LIO and ALBA showing that the two formalisms are expressively equivalent. As we expect there to be applications of our results in model checking, we use two standard sources of specification formulae, namely Spec Patterns and BEEM, to study the practical relevance of the LIO fragment, and to compare our translation of LIO to ALBA with two standard translations of LTL to BA using alternating automata. Finally, we demonstrate that the LIO to ALBA translation can be much faster than the standard translation, and the resulting automata can be substantially smaller.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1017/S0960129511000399
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Keywords
DocType
Volume
standard source,standard translation,new fragment,linear temporal logic,new class,linear b,alba translation,effective translation,lio fragment,chi automaton
Journal
22
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0960-1295
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
13
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tomáš Babiak1903.70
Vojtĕch Řehák2365.15
Jan Strejček3798.12