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arxiv 1312.6146 v1 pith:QASMK6E5 submitted 2013-12-20 cs.AI

Generating Shortest Synchronizing Sequences using Answer Set Programming

classification cs.AI
keywords sequencesynchronizingshortestanswerfindingfiniteproblemprogramming
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For a finite state automaton, a synchronizing sequence is an input sequence that takes all the states to the same state. Checking the existence of a synchronizing sequence and finding a synchronizing sequence, if one exists, can be performed in polynomial time. However, the problem of finding a shortest synchronizing sequence is known to be NP-hard. In this work, the usefulness of Answer Set Programming to solve this optimization problem is investigated, in comparison with brute-force algorithms and SAT-based approaches. Keywords: finite automata, shortest synchronizing sequence, ASP

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