Structural Analysis of Boolean Equation Systems

  • Authors:
  • Jeroen J. A. Keiren;Michel A. Reniers;Tim A. C. Willemse

  • Affiliations:
  • Eindhoven University of Technology;Eindhoven University of Technology;Eindhoven University of Technology

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (TOCL)
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We analyze the problem of solving Boolean equation systems through the use of structure graphs. The latter are obtained through an elegant set of Plotkin-style deduction rules. Our main contribution is that we show that equation systems with bisimilar structure graphs have the same solution. We show that our work conservatively extends earlier work, conducted by Keiren and Willemse, in which dependency graphs were used to analyze a subclass of Boolean equation systems, viz., equation systems in standard recursive form. We illustrate our approach by a small example, demonstrating the effect of simplifying an equation system through minimization of its structure graph.