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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2021.2
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-143799
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2021/14379/
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Havlena, Vojtěch ; Lengál, Ondřej

Reducing (To) the Ranks: Efficient Rank-Based Büchi Automata Complementation

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Abstract

This paper provides several optimizations of the rank-based approach for complementing Büchi automata. We start with Schewe’s theoretically optimal construction and develop a set of techniques for pruning its state space that are key to obtaining small complement automata in practice. In particular, the reductions (except one) have the property that they preserve (at least some) so-called super-tight runs, which are runs whose ranking is as tight as possible. Our evaluation on a large benchmark shows that the optimizations indeed significantly help the rank-based approach and that, in a large number of cases, the obtained complement is the smallest from those produced by state-of-the-art tools for Büchi complementation.

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@InProceedings{havlena_et_al:LIPIcs.CONCUR.2021.2,
  author =	{Havlena, Vojt\v{e}ch and Leng\'{a}l, Ond\v{r}ej},
  title =	{{Reducing (To) the Ranks: Efficient Rank-Based B\"{u}chi Automata Complementation}},
  booktitle =	{32nd International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2021)},
  pages =	{2:1--2:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-203-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{203},
  editor =	{Haddad, Serge and Varacca, Daniele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2021/14379},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-143799},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2021.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: B\"{u}chi automata, rank-based complementation, super-tight runs}
}

Keywords: Büchi automata, rank-based complementation, super-tight runs
Collection: 32nd International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2021)
Issue Date: 2021
Date of publication: 13.08.2021

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