Bisimulation and Simulation Algorithms
A special issue of Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 July 2018) | Viewed by 4964
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Interests: algorithms for bioinformatics and computational biology; logic decision algorithms; algorithms and data-structures for compressed computation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleague,
This Special Issue will survey the current state-of-the-art on algorithms for computing bisimulation and simulation in different fields.
Bisimulation and simulation have been pervasive in the areas of set theory, logics, category theory, formal languages, concurrency, automated verification, performances evaluation. The analysis techniques based on bisimulation and simulation developed in such areas have been successfully applied to the study of both engineered, natural, and hybrid systems. For instance, infinite state systems have been formally verified thanks to the computation of their finite bisimulation/simulation quotients. Since the beginning the need for efficient bisimulation and simulation algorithms has involved some of the most important names in algorithms.
We invite original high-quality contributions on all algorithmic aspects of bisimulation and simulation computation, including (but not limited to):
- classical partitioning techniques
- abstract interpretation based computations
- symbolic techniques
- variants of the problem such as stuttering, probabilistic, stochastic ones
- lower bounds to the complexity
- tools and applications
Dr. Carla Piazza
Dr. Raffaella Gentilini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bisimulation
- simulation
- state space reduction
- model checking
- set theory
- process algebras
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