We are happy to announce that the following paper has been accepted for publication at the 20th International SPIN Symposium on Model Checking of Software (SPIN'13) that will take place in Stony Brook, NY, USA on 8-9 July 2013.

Compositional Approach to Suspension and Other Improvements to LTL Translation

Tomáš Babiak (1), Thomas Badie (2), Alexandre Duret-Lutz (2), Mojmír Křetínský (1), and Jan Strejček (1)

(1) Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (2) LRDE, EPITA, Kremlin-Bicêtre, France

http://publis.lrde.epita.fr/201307-Spin

Recently, there was defined a fragment of LTL (containing fairness properties among other interesting formulae) whose validity over a given infinite word depends only on an arbitrary suffix of the word. Building upon an existing translation from LTL to Büchi automata, we introduce a compositional approach where subformulae of this fragment are translated separately from the rest of an input formula and the produced automata are composed in a way that the subformulae are checked only in relevant accepting strongly connected components of the final automaton. Further, we suggest improvements over some procedures commonly applied to generalized Büchi automata, namely over generalized acceptance simplification and over degeneralization. Finally we show how existing simulation-based reductions can be implemented in a signature-based framework in a way that improves the determinism of the automaton.