scholarly journals A partition refinement algorithm for the π-calculus

Author(s):  
Marco Pistore ◽  
Davide Sangiorgi
2001 ◽  
Vol 164 (2) ◽  
pp. 264-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Pistore ◽  
Davide Sangiorgi

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (14) ◽  
pp. 2050212
Author(s):  
Ian Stewart

Balanced colorings of networks correspond to flow-invariant synchrony spaces. It is known that the coarsest balanced coloring is equivalent to nodes having isomorphic infinite input trees, but this condition is not algorithmic. We provide an algorithmic characterization: two nodes have the same color for the coarsest balanced coloring if and only if their [Formula: see text]th input trees are isomorphic, where [Formula: see text] is the number of nodes. Here [Formula: see text] is the best possible. The proof is analogous to that of Leighton’s theorem in graph theory, using the universal cover of the network and the notion of a symbolic adjacency matrix to set up a partition refinement algorithm whose output is the coarsest balanced coloring. The running time of the algorithm is cubic in [Formula: see text].


2001 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrik Frendrup ◽  
Jesper Nyholm Jensen

<p>This paper deals with algorithmic checking of open bisimilarity in the pi-calculus. Most bisimulation checking algorithms are based on the partition refinement approach. Unfortunately the definition of open bisimulation does not permit us to use a partition refinement approach for open bisimulation checking directly, but in the paper 'A Partition Refinement Algorithm for the pi-Calculus' Marco Pistore and Davide Sangiorgi present an iterative method that makes it possible to check for open bisimilarity using partition refinement. We have implemented the algorithm presented by Marco Pistore and Davide Sangiorgi. Furthermore,<br />we have optimized this algorithm and implemented this optimized algorithm. The time-complexity of this algorithm is the same as the time-complexity for the first algorithm, but performance tests have shown that in many cases the running time of the optimized algorithm is shorter than the running time of the first algorithm. Our implementation of the optimized open bisimulation checker algorithm and a user interface have been integrated in a system called the OBC Workbench.The source code and a manual for it is available from http://www.cs.auc.dk/research/FS/ny/PR-pi/.</p>


Author(s):  
Thorsten Wißmann ◽  
Hans-Peter Deifel ◽  
Stefan Milius ◽  
Lutz Schröder

AbstractPartition refinement is a method for minimizing automata and transition systems of various types. Recently, we have developed a partition refinement algorithm that is generic in the transition type of the given system and matches the run time of the best known algorithms for many concrete types of systems, e.g. deterministic automata as well as ordinary, weighted, and probabilistic (labelled) transition systems. Genericity is achieved by modelling transition types as functors on sets, and systems as coalgebras. In the present work, we refine the run time analysis of our algorithm to cover additional instances, notably weighted automata and, more generally, weighted tree automata. For weights in a cancellative monoid we match, and for non-cancellative monoids such as (the additive monoid of) the tropical semiring even substantially improve, the asymptotic run time of the best known algorithms. We have implemented our algorithm in a generic tool that is easily instantiated to concrete system types by implementing a simple refinement interface. Moreover, the algorithm and the tool are modular, and partition refiners for new types of systems are obtained easily by composing pre-implemented basic functors. Experiments show that even for complex system types, the tool is able to handle systems with millions of transitions.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Bolander ◽  
Lasse Dissing ◽  
Nicolai Herrmann

Epistemic planning based on Dynamic Epistemic Logic (DEL) allows agents to reason and plan from the perspective of other agents. The framework of DEL-based epistemic planning thereby has the potential to represent significant aspects of Theory of Mind in autonomous robots, and to provide a foundation for human-robot collaboration in which coordination is achieved implicitly through perspective shifts. In this paper, we build on previous work in epistemic planning with implicit coordination. We introduce a new notion of indistinguishability between epistemic states based on bisimulation, and provide a novel partition refinement algorithm for computing unique representatives of sets of indistinguishable states. We provide an algorithm for computing implicitly coordinated plans using these new constructs, embed it in a perceive-plan-act agent loop, and implement it on a robot. The planning algorithm is benchmarked against an existing epistemic planning algorithm, and the robotic implementation is demonstrated on human-robot collaboration scenarios requiring implicit coordination.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Björklund ◽  
Loek Cleophas

AbstractWe present a minimization algorithm for non-deterministic finite state automata that finds and merges bisimulation-equivalent states. The bisimulation relation is computed through partition aggregation, in contrast to existing algorithms that use partition refinement. The algorithm simultaneously generalises and simplifies an earlier one by Watson and Daciuk for deterministic devices. We show the algorithm to be correct and run in time $$ O \left( n^2 r^2 \left| \varSigma \right| \right) $$On2r2Σ, where n is the number of states of the input automaton $$M$$M, r is the maximal out-degree in the transition graph for any combination of state and input symbol, and $$\left| \varSigma \right| $$Σ is the size of the input alphabet. The algorithm has a higher time complexity than derivatives of Hopcroft’s partition-refinement algorithm, but represents a promising new solution approach that preserves language equivalence throughout the computation process. Furthermore, since the algorithm essentially computes the maximal model of a logical formula derived from $$M$$M, optimisation techniques from the field of model checking become applicable.


2013 ◽  
Vol 760-762 ◽  
pp. 1919-1924 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ai Min Hou ◽  
Chuan Fu Hu ◽  
Zhi Feng Hao

A general depth-first backtracking algorithm for graph isomorphism with the vertex partition and refinement technique is presented in this paper. The time complexity of this nondeterministic polynomial algorithm is O(nα+3) where nα is the number of backtracking points and (h-1)/2α (h+1)/2 for h=logn in the worst cases. The tests on many types of graphs validated the efficiency of this algorithm for graph isomorphism.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 1903
Author(s):  
Zhihui Li ◽  
Jiaxin Liu ◽  
Yang Yang ◽  
Jing Zhang

Objects in satellite remote sensing image sequences often have large deformations, and the stereo matching of this kind of image is so difficult that the matching rate generally drops. A disparity refinement method is needed to correct and fill the disparity. A method for disparity refinement based on the results of plane segmentation is proposed in this paper. The plane segmentation algorithm includes two steps: Initial segmentation based on mean-shift and alpha-expansion-based energy minimization. According to the results of plane segmentation and fitting, the disparity is refined by filling missed matching regions and removing outliers. The experimental results showed that the proposed plane segmentation method could not only accurately fit the plane in the presence of noise but also approximate the surface by plane combination. After the proposed plane segmentation method was applied to the disparity refinement of remote sensing images, many missed matches were filled, and the elevation errors were reduced. This proved that the proposed algorithm was effective. For difficult evaluations resulting from significant variations in remote sensing images of different satellites, the edge matching rate and the edge matching map are proposed as new stereo matching evaluation and analysis tools. Experiment results showed that they were easy to use, intuitive, and effective.


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