Gianfranco Ciardo6
, Robert Marmorstein6
and Radu Siminiceanu6 
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College of William and Mary, 23187 Virginia, Williamsburg |
Abstract
In previous work, we proposed a “saturation” algorithm for symbolic state-space generation characterized by the use of multi-valued
decision diagrams, boolean Kronecker operators, event locality, and a special iteration strategy. This approach outperforms
traditional BDD-based techniques by several orders of magnitude in both space and time but, like them, assumes a priori knowledge
of each submodel’s state space. We introduce a new algorithm that merges explicit local statespace discovery with symbolic
global state-space generation. This relieves the modeler from worrying about the behavior of submodels in isolation.
Work supported in part by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under grants NAG-1-2168 and NAG-1-02095 and by
the National Science Foundation under grants CCR-0219745 and ACI-0203971.
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