A sufficient condition to polynomially compute a minimum separating DFA

The computation of a minimal separating automaton (MSA) for regular languages has been studied from many different points of view, from synthesis of automata or Grammatical Inference to the minimization of incompletely specified machines or Compositional Verification. In the general case, the proble...

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Authors: Vázquez-de-Parga Andrade, Manuel, López Rodríguez, Damián|||0000-0003-3633-3862, García Gómez, Pedro
Format: article
Publication Date:2016
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repository:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/82093
Online Access:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/82093
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Minimal separating DFA
Minimal consistent DFA
Model checking
Minimization of incompletely specified automata
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Summary:The computation of a minimal separating automaton (MSA) for regular languages has been studied from many different points of view, from synthesis of automata or Grammatical Inference to the minimization of incompletely specified machines or Compositional Verification. In the general case, the problem is NP-complete, but this drawback does not prevent the problem from having a real application in the above-mentioned fields. In this paper, we propose a sufficient condition that guarantees that the computation of the MSA can be carried out with polynomial time complexity. © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.