Don't care words with an application to the automata-based approach for real addition

  • Authors:
  • Jochen Eisinger;Felix Klaedtke

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany 79110;Computer Science Department, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 8092

  • Venue:
  • Formal Methods in System Design
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Automata have proved to be a useful tool in infinite-state model checking, since they can represent infinite sets of integers and reals. However, analogous to the use of binary decision diagrams (bdds) to represent finite sets, the sizes of the automata are an obstacle in the automata-based set representation. In this article, we generalize the notion of "don't cares" for bdds to word languages as a means to reduce the automata sizes. We show that the minimal weak deterministic Büchi automaton (wdba) with respect to a given don't care set, under certain restrictions, is uniquely determined and can be efficiently constructed. We apply don't cares to improve the efficiency of a decision procedure for the first-order logic over the mixed linear arithmetic over the integers and the reals based on wdbas.