Efficient symbolic implementation of graph automata with applications to invariant checking

  • Authors:
  • Christoph Blume;H. J. Sander Bruggink;Dominik Engelke;Barbara König

  • Affiliations:
  • Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany;Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany;Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany;Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ICGT'12 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Graph Transformations
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We introduce graph automata as a more automata-theoretic view on (bounded) automaton functors and we present how automaton-based techniques can be used for invariant checking in graph transformation systems. Since earlier related work on graph automata suffered from the explosion of the size of the automata and the need of approximations due to the non-determinism of the automata, we here employ symbolic bdd-based techniques and recent antichain algorithms for language inclusion to overcome these issues. We have implemented techniques for generating, manipulating and analyzing graph automata and perform an experimental evaluation.