Conference Papers Year : 2013

Checking NFA equivalence with bisimulations up to congruence

Abstract

We introduce bisimulation up to congruence as a technique for proving language equivalence of non-deterministic finite automata. Exploiting this technique, we devise an optimisation of the classical algorithm by Hopcroft and Karp. We compare our algorithm to the recently introduced antichain algorithms, by analysing and relating the two underlying coinductive proof methods. We give concrete examples where we exponentially improve over antichains; experimental results moreover show non negligible improvements on random automata.
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hal-00639716 , version 1 (09-11-2011)
hal-00639716 , version 2 (06-12-2011)
hal-00639716 , version 3 (14-01-2012)
hal-00639716 , version 4 (27-02-2012)
hal-00639716 , version 5 (11-07-2012)

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Filippo Bonchi, Damien Pous. Checking NFA equivalence with bisimulations up to congruence. Principle of Programming Languages (POPL), Jan 2013, Roma, Italy. pp.457-468, ⟨10.1145/2429069.2429124⟩. ⟨hal-00639716v5⟩
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