spot/src/taalgos/minimize.hh

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#pragma once

#include "ta/ta.hh"
#include "ta/tgta.hh"
#include "ta/tgtaexplicit.hh"

namespace spot
{
  /// \addtogroup ta_reduction
  /// @{


  /// \brief Construct a simplified TA by merging bisimilar states.
  ///
  /// A TA automaton can be simplified by merging bisimilar states:
  /// Two states are bisimilar if the automaton can accept the
  ///    same executions starting for either of these states. This can be
  /// achieved using any algorithm based on partition refinement
  ///
  /// For more detail about this type of algorithm, see the following paper:
  /** \verbatim
      @InProceedings{valmari.09.icatpn,
      author = {Antti Valmari},
      title = {Bisimilarity Minimization in in O(m logn) Time},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on
                     the Applications and Theory of Petri Nets
                     (ICATPN'09)},
      series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
      publisher = {Springer},
      isbn = {978-3-642-02423-8},
      pages = {123--142},
      volume = 5606,
       url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02424-5_9},
      year = {2009}
      }
      \endverbatim */
  ///
  /// \param ta_ the TA automaton to convert into a simplified TA
  SPOT_API ta_explicit_ptr
  minimize_ta(const const_ta_ptr& ta_);



  /// \brief Construct a simplified TGTA by merging bisimilar states.
  ///
  /// A TGTA automaton can be simplified by merging bisimilar states:
  /// Two states are bisimilar if the automaton can accept the
  /// same executions starting for either of these states. This can be
  /// achieved using same algorithm used to simplify a TA taking into account
  /// the acceptance conditions of the outgoing transitions.
  ///
  /// \param tgta_ the TGTA automaton to convert into a simplified TGTA
  SPOT_API tgta_explicit_ptr
  minimize_tgta(const const_tgta_explicit_ptr& tgta_);

/// @}
}