Abstract

We present a novel algorithm for generating state spaces of asynchronous systems using Multi–valued Decision Diagrams. In contrast to related work, we encode the next–state function of a system not as a single Boolean function, but as cross–products of integer functions. This permits the application of various iteration strategies to build a system’s state space. In particular, we introduce a new elegant strategy, called saturation, and implement it in the tool SMART. On top of usually performing several orders of magnitude faster than existing BDD–based state–space generators, our algorithm’s required peak memory is often close to the final memory needed for storing the overall state space.

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