A Distributed Fixed-Point Algorithm for Extended Dependency Graphs

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Authors

DALSGAARD Andreas E. ENEVOLDSEN Soren FOGH Peter JENSEN Lasse S. JENSEN Peter G. JEPSEN Tobias S. KAUFMANN Isabella LARSEN Kim G. NIELSEN Soren M. OLESEN Mads Chr. PASTVA Samuel SRBA Jiří

Year of publication 2018
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Fundamenta Informaticae
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Faculty of Informatics

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Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/FI-2018-1707
Keywords extended dependency graph; fixed-point algorithm; petri nets
Description Equivalence and model checking problems can be encoded into computing fixed points on dependency graphs. Dependency graphs represent causal dependencies among the nodes of the graph by means of hyper-edges. We suggest to extend the model of dependency graphs with so-called negation edges in order to increase their applicability. The graphs (as well as the verifi- cation problems) suffer from the state space explosion problem. To combat this issue, we design an on-the-fly algorithm for efficiently computing fixed points on extended dependency graphs. Our algorithm supplements previous approaches with the possibility to back-propagate, in certain scenarios, the domain value 0, in addition to the standard back-propagation of the value 1. Finally, we design a distributed version of the algorithm, implement it in our open-source tool TAPAAL, and demonstrate the efficiency of our general approach on the benchmark of Petri net models and CTL queries from the annual Model Checking Contest.
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