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We address termination analysis for the class of gap-order constraint systems (GCS), an (infinitely-branching) abstract model of counter machines recently introduced in [8], in which constraints (over ℤ) between the variables of the source state and the target state of a transition are gap-order constraints (GC) [18]. GCS extend monotonicity constraint systems [4], integral relation automata [9], and constraint automata in [12]. Since GCS are infinitely-branching, termination does not imply strong termination, i.e. the existence of an upper bound on the lengths of the runs from a given state. We show the following: (1) checking strong termination for GCS is decidable and Pspace-complete, and (2) for each control location of the given GCS, one can build a GC representation of the set of variable valuations from which strong termination does not hold.
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Bozzelli, L. (2012). Strong Termination for Gap-Order Constraint Abstractions of Counter Systems. In: Dediu, AH., Martín-Vide, C. (eds) Language and Automata Theory and Applications. LATA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7183. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28332-1_14
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