par Doyen, Laurent 
;Raskin, Jean-François
Référence Logical methods in computer science, 5, 1, page (1-20)
Publication Publié, 2009-01
;Raskin, Jean-François Référence Logical methods in computer science, 5, 1, page (1-20)
Publication Publié, 2009-01
Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | We propose and evaluate antichain algorithms to solve the universality and language inclusion problems for nondeterministic B̈uchi automata, and the emptiness problem for alternating B̈uchi 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 B̈uchi 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. |
