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Ackermann Encoding, Bisimulations, and OBDDs

Logic in Computer Science 2009-09-29 v1 Data Structures and Algorithms

Abstract

We propose an alternative way to represent graphs via OBDDs based on the observation that a partition of the graph nodes allows sharing among the employed OBDDs. In the second part of the paper we present a method to compute at the same time the quotient w.r.t. the maximum bisimulation and the OBDD representation of a given graph. The proposed computation is based on an OBDD-rewriting of the notion of Ackermann encoding of hereditarily finite sets into natural numbers.

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@article{arxiv.cs/0311018,
  title  = {Ackermann Encoding, Bisimulations, and OBDDs},
  author = {Carla Piazza and Alberto Policriti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0311018},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

To appear on 'Theory and Practice of Logic Programming'