Jan Martens: A parallel algorithm for bisimulation partition refinement


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The notion of strong bisimilarity on LTSs is an equivalence that expresses whether states have the same behavior. In their pioneering work Kanellakis and Smolka proposed a partition refinement algorithm that finds the coarsest partition of bisimilar states. We propose a parallel version of this algorithm that performs this partition refinement on an LTS with n states and m labels in O(n) steps on max(n,m) CRCW PRAM processors. Additionally, it does not perform more work than the sequential counterpart.