Techniques for Decidability and Undecidability of Bisimilarity

  • Authors:
  • Petr Jancar;Faron Moller

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • CONCUR '99 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Concurrency Theory
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

In this tutorial we describe general approaches to deciding bisimilarity between vertices of (infinite) directed edge-labelled graphs. The approaches are based on a systematic search following the definition of bisimilarity. We outline (in decreasing levels of detail) how the search is modified to solve the problem for finite graphs, BPP graphs, BPA graphs, normed PA graphs, and normed PDA graphs. We complete this by showing the technique used in the case of graphs generated by one-counter machines. Finally, we demonstrate a general reduction strategy for proving undecidability, which we apply in the case of graphs generated by state-extended BPP (a restricted form of labelled Petri nets).