[Lrde Annonce] Paper accepted at TACAS'22: Practical Applications of the ACD

We are happy to announce that the following article has been accepted to the 28th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS'22) to be held in Munich in April 2022. ====================================================================== Practical Applications of the Alternating Cycle Decomposition Antonio Casares¹, Alexandre Duret-Lutz², Klara J. Meyer³, Florian Renkin², and Salomon Sickert⁴ ¹LaBRI, Universitée de Bordeaux, France ²LRDE, EPITA, France ³Independent Researcher ⁴School of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew Univ., Israel In 2021, Casares, Colcombet, and Fijalkow introduced the Alternating Cycle Decomposition (ACD) to study properties and transformations of Muller automata. We present the first practical implementation of the ACD in two different tools, Owl and Spot, and adapt it to the framework of Emerson-Lei automata, i.e., ω-automata whose acceptance conditions are defined by Boolean formulas. The ACD provides a transformation of Emerson-Lei automata into parity automata with strong optimality guarantees: the resulting parity automaton is minimal among those automata that can be obtained by duplication of states. Our empirical results show that this transformation is usable in practice. Further, we show how the ACD can generalize many other specialized constructions such as deciding typeness of automata and degeneralization of generalized Büchi automata, providing a framework of practical algorithms for ω-automata. https://www.lrde.epita.fr/wiki/Publications/casares.22.tacas ======================================================================