Publications/baier.19.atva

Authors

Christel Baier, František Blahoudek, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, Joachim Klein, David Müller, Jan Strejček

Where

Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA'19)

Type

inproceedings

Publisher

Springer

Keywords

Spot

Date

2019-07-29

Abstract

We present a new algorithm for checking the emptiness of $\omega$-automata with an Emerson-Lei acceptance condition (i.e., a positive Boolean formula over sets of states or transitions that must be visited infinitely or finitely often). The algorithm can also solve the model checking problem of probabilistic positiveness of MDP under a property given as a deterministic Emerson-Lei automaton. Although both these problems are known to be NP-complete and our algorithm is exponential in general, it runs in polynomial time for simpler acceptance conditions like generalized Rabin, Streett, or parity. In fact, the algorithm provides a unifying view on emptiness checks for these simpler automata classes. We have implemented the algorithm in Spot and PRISM and our experiments show improved performance over previous solutions.

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@InProceedings{	  baier.19.atva,
  author	= {Christel Baier and Franti\v{s}ek Blahoudek and Alexandre
		  Duret-Lutz and Joachim Klein and David M\"uller and Jan
		  Strej\v{c}ek},
  title		= {Generic Emptiness Check for Fun and Profit},
  booktitle	= {Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on
		  Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis
		  (ATVA'19)},
  year		= {2019},
  volume	= {11781},
  series	= {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  pages		= {445--461},
  month		= oct,
  publisher	= {Springer},
  abstract	= {We present a new algorithm for checking the emptiness of
		  $\omega$-automata with an Emerson-Lei acceptance condition
		  (i.e., a positive Boolean formula over sets of states or
		  transitions that must be visited infinitely or finitely
		  often). The algorithm can also solve the model checking
		  problem of probabilistic positiveness of MDP under a
		  property given as a deterministic Emerson-Lei automaton.
		  Although both these problems are known to be NP-complete
		  and our algorithm is exponential in general, it runs in
		  polynomial time for simpler acceptance conditions like
		  generalized Rabin, Streett, or parity. In fact, the
		  algorithm provides a unifying view on emptiness checks for
		  these simpler automata classes. We have implemented the
		  algorithm in Spot and PRISM and our experiments show
		  improved performance over previous solutions.},
  doi		= {10.1007/978-3-030-31784-3_26}
}