New Optimizations and Heuristics for Determinization of B\"uchi Automata

Abstract

In this work, we present multiple new optimizations and heuristics for the determinization of B\"uchi automata that exploit a number of semantic and structural properties, most of which may be applied together with any determinization procedure. We built a prototype implementation where all the presented heuristics can be freely combined and evaluated them, comparing our implementation with the state-of-the-art tool spot on multiple data sets with different characteristics. Our results show that the proposed optimizations and heuristics can in some cases significantly decrease the size of the resulting deterministic automaton.