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Almost linear Büchi automata

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2012

TOMÁŠ BABIAK ,
VOJTĚCH ŘEHÁK  and
JAN STREJČEK
TOMÁŠ BABIAK
Affiliation:
Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic Email: xbabiak@fi.muni.cz, rehak@fi.muni.cz, strejcek@fi.muni.cz
VOJTĚCH ŘEHÁK
Affiliation:
Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic Email: xbabiak@fi.muni.cz, rehak@fi.muni.cz, strejcek@fi.muni.cz
JAN STREJČEK
Affiliation:
Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic Email: xbabiak@fi.muni.cz, rehak@fi.muni.cz, strejcek@fi.muni.cz
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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.

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Mathematical Structures in Computer Science , Volume 22 , Special Issue 2: Express '09, Ice '09 and Sos '09 , April 2012 , pp. 203 - 235
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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