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February 2015


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Hacking Nondeterminism with Induction and Coinduction

Hacking Nondeterminism with Induction and Coinduction

We introduce bisimulation up to congruence as a technique for proving language equivalence of nondeterministic finite automata.


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Technical Perspective: The Equivalence Problem For Finite Automata

As the equivalence problem is essential in many applications, we need algorithms that avoid the worst-case complexity as often as possible. In "Hacking Nondeterminism with Induction and Coinduction," Filippo Bonchi and Damien…