Algorithms for Inferring Register Automata - A Comparison of Existing Approaches

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F. Aarts, H. Kuppens, F. Howar, and F.W. Vaandrager. Algorithms for Inferring Register Automata - A Comparison of Existing Approaches. In T. Margaria and B. Steffen, editors. Proceedings 6th International Symposium On Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation (ISOLA 2014), 8-11 October 2014, Imperial, Corfu, Greece. LNCS 8802, pp. 202-2019, Springer Verlag, 2014. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-45234-9_15.

Abstract

In recent years, two different approaches for learning register automata have been developed: as part of the LearnLib tool algorithms have been implemented that are based on the Nerode congruence for register automata, whereas the Tomte tool implements algorithms that use counterexample-guided abstraction refinement to automatically construct appropriate mappers. In this paper, we compare the LearnLib and Tomte approaches on a newly defined set of benchmarks and highlight their differences and respective strengths.

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