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From LTL to deterministic automata (A safraless compositional approach)

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ESPARZA Javier KŘETÍNSKÝ Jan SICKERT Salomon

Year of publication 2016
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Formal Methods in System Design
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Faculty of Informatics

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Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10703-016-0259-2
Field Informatics
Keywords automata; verification; logic
Description We present a new algorithm to construct a (generalized) deterministic Rabin automaton for an LTL formula \phi. The automaton is the product of a co-Büchi automaton for \phi and an array of Rabin automata, one for each G-subformula of \phi. The Rabin automaton for G\psi is in charge of recognizing whether FG\psi holds. This information is passed to the co-Büchi automaton that decides on acceptance. As opposed to standard procedures based on Safra’s determinization, the states of all our automata have a clear logical structure, which allows for various optimizations. Experimental results show improvement in the sizes of the resulting automata compared to existing methods.
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