Nir Piterman - From Nondeterministic Büchi and Streett Automata to Deterministic Parity Automata

lmcs:1199 - Logical Methods in Computer Science, August 14, 2007, Volume 3, Issue 3 - https://doi.org/10.2168/LMCS-3(3:5)2007
From Nondeterministic Büchi and Streett Automata to Deterministic Parity AutomataArticle

Authors: Nir Piterman ORCID

    In this paper we revisit Safra's determinization constructions for automata on infinite words. We show how to construct deterministic automata with fewer states and, most importantly, parity acceptance conditions. Determinization is used in numerous applications, such as reasoning about tree automata, satisfiability of CTL*, and realizability and synthesis of logical specifications. The upper bounds for all these applications are reduced by using the smaller deterministic automata produced by our construction. In addition, the parity acceptance conditions allows to use more efficient algorithms (when compared to handling Rabin or Streett acceptance conditions).


    Volume: Volume 3, Issue 3
    Published on: August 14, 2007
    Imported on: November 9, 2006
    Keywords: Computer Science - Logic in Computer Science,Computer Science - Formal Languages and Automata Theory,F.1.1,F.4.3

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