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A New Heuristic Synchronizing Algorithm

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2013-08-12 v1 Data Structures and Algorithms

Abstract

We present a new heuristic algorithm finding reset words. The algorithm called CutOff-IBFS is based on a simple idea of inverse breadth-first-search in the power automaton. We perform an experimental investigation of effectiveness compared to other algorithms existing in literature, which yields that our method generally finds a shorter word in an average case and works well in practice.

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@article{arxiv.1308.1978,
  title  = {A New Heuristic Synchronizing Algorithm},
  author = {Jakub Kowalski and Marek Szykuła},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.1978},
  year   = {2013}
}
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