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The automata-theoretic approach for the verification of linear time properties involves checking the emptiness of a Büchi automaton. However generalized Büchi automata, with multiple acceptance sets, are preferred when verifying under weak fairness hypotheses. Existing emptiness checks for which the complexity is independent of the number of acceptance sets are all based on the enumeration of Strongly Connected Components (SCCs).
In this paper, we review the state of the art SCC enumeration algorithms to study how they can be turned into emptiness checks. This leads us to define two new emptiness check algorithms (one of them based on the Union-Find data structure), introduce new optimizations, and show that one of these can be of benefit to a classic SCCs enumeration algorithm. We have implemented all these variants to compare their relative performances and the overhead induced by the emptiness check compared to the corresponding SCCs enumeration algorithm. Our experiments shows that these three algorithms are comparable.
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Renault, E., Duret-Lutz, A., Kordon, F., Poitrenaud, D. (2013). Three SCC-Based Emptiness Checks for Generalized Büchi Automata. In: McMillan, K., Middeldorp, A., Voronkov, A. (eds) Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning. LPAR 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8312. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45221-5_44
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