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State space partitioning-based approaches have been proposed in the literature to address the state-space explosion problem in model checking. These approaches, whether sequential or distributed, perform a large amount of work in the form of inter-partition (cross-over) image computations, which can be expensive. We present a model checking algorithm that aggregates these expensive cross-over images by localizing computation to individual partitions. It reduces the number of cross-over images and drastically outperforms extant approaches in terms of cross-over image computation cost as well as total model checking time, often by two orders of magnitude.
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Iyer, S., Sahoo, D., Emerson, E.A., Jain, J. (2005). On Partitioning and Symbolic Model Checking. In: Fitzgerald, J., Hayes, I.J., Tarlecki, A. (eds) FM 2005: Formal Methods. FM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3582. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11526841_33
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