Title
Antichains for the Automata-Based Approach to Model-Checking
Abstract
We propose and evaluate antichain algorithms to solve the universality and language inclusion problems for nondeterministic Buchi automata, and the emptiness problem for alternating Buchi automata. To obtain those algorithms, we establish the existence of simulation pre-orders that can be exploited to efficiently evaluate fixed points on the automata defined during the complementation step (that we keep implicit in our approach). We evaluate the performance of the algorithm to check the universality of Buchi automata using the random automaton model recently proposed by Tabakov and Vardi. We show that on the difficult instances of this probabilistic model, our algorithm outperforms the standard ones by several orders of magnitude.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.2168/LMCS-5(1:5)2009
LOGICAL METHODS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
Keywords
Field
DocType
alternating Buchi automata,nondeterministic Buchi automata,emptiness,universality,language inclusion,antichains
Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Antichain,Model checking,Nondeterministic algorithm,Automaton,Algorithm,Statistical model,Fixed point,Universality (philosophy),Mathematics,Büchi automaton
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
5
1
1860-5974
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
27
1.32
18
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Laurent Doyen197955.96
Jean-François Raskin21735100.15
Orna Grumberg34361351.99