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Model Checking Using Generalized Testing Automata

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Geldenhuys and Hansen showed that a kind of ω-automata known as Testing Automata (TA) can, in the case of stuttering-insensitive properties, outperform the Büchi automata traditionally used in the automata-theoretic approach to model checking [10].

In previous work [23], we compared TA against Transition-based Generalized Büchi Automata (TGBA), and concluded that TA were more interesting when counterexamples were expected, otherwise TGBA were more efficient.

In this work we introduce a new kind of automata, dubbed Transition-based Generalized Testing Automata (TGTA), that combine ideas from TA and TGBA. Implementation and experimentation of TGTA show that they outperform other approaches in most of the cases.

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  • testing automata
  • model checking
  • emptiness check

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    Ala-Eddine Ben Salem & Alexandre Duret-Lutz

  2. LIP6, CNRS UMR 7606, Université P. & M. Curie – Paris 6, France

    Ala-Eddine Ben Salem & Fabrice Kordon

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Ben Salem, AE., Duret-Lutz, A., Kordon, F. (2012). Model Checking Using Generalized Testing Automata. In: Jensen, K., van der Aalst, W.M., Ajmone Marsan, M., Franceschinis, G., Kleijn, J., Kristensen, L.M. (eds) Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency VI. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7400. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35179-2_5

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