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RAIRO-Theor. Inf. Appl.
Volume 42, Number 2, April-June 2008
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Page(s) | 197 - 215 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/ita:2007029 | |
Published online | 25 September 2007 |
Efficiency of automata in semi-commutation verification techniques
LIFC, CNRS FRE 2661, Projet INRIA-CASSIS,
Université de Franche-Comté, 16 route de Gray,
25030 Besancon Cedex, France; Gerard.Cece@univ-fcomte.fr;
Pierre-Cyrille.Heam@univ-fcomte.fr;
Yann.Mainier@univ-fcomte.fr
Received:
27
April
2004
Accepted:
5
December
2005
Computing the image of a regular language by the transitive closure of a relation is a central question in regular model checking. In a recent paper Bouajjani et al. [IEEE Comput. Soc. (2001) 399–408] proved that the class of regular languages L – called APC – of the form UjL0,jL1,jL2,j...Lkj,j, where the union is finite and each Li,j is either a single symbol or a language of the form B* with B a subset of the alphabet, is closed under all semi-commutation relations R. Moreover a recursive algorithm on the regular expressions was given to compute R*(L). This paper provides a new approach, based on automata, for the same problem. Our approach produces a simpler and more efficient algorithm which furthermore works for a larger class of regular languages closed under union, intersection, semi-commutation relations and conjugacy. The existence of this new class, PolC, answers the open question proposed in the paper of Bouajjani et al.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 68N30
Key words: Regular model checking / verification / parametric systems / semi-commutations
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