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Using Sat solvers for synchronization issues in partial deterministic automata

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2019-03-27 v1

Abstract

We approach the task of computing a carefully synchronizing word of minimum length for a given partial deterministic automaton, encoding the problem as an instance of SAT and invoking a SAT solver. Our experimental results demonstrate that this approach gives satisfactory results for automata with up to 100 states even if very modest computational resources are used.

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@article{arxiv.1903.10549,
  title  = {Using Sat solvers for synchronization issues in partial deterministic automata},
  author = {Hanan Shabana and Mikhail V. Volkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.10549},
  year   = {2019}
}

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15 pages, 3 figures

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