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On the complementation of Büchi asynchronous cellular automata

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We present a subset automaton construction for asynchronous cellular automata. This provides an answer to the problem of direct determinization for asynchronous cellular automata for finite traces, which has been open for several years. We use the subset automaton construction in order to extend Klarlund's progress measure technique of complementation to non-deterministic asynchronous cellular Büchi automata for infinite traces. Our automaton for the complement (as well as the subset automaton) has \(2^{O(N^{\left| \Sigma \right|} )} \) global states.

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Muscholl, A. (1994). On the complementation of Büchi asynchronous cellular automata. In: Abiteboul, S., Shamir, E. (eds) Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 820. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58201-0_64

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