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Automata and Binary Decision Diagrams

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Automata Implementation (WIA 1998)

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We show that the concept of automata minimization leads to a nice interpretation of the famous canonicity of binary decision diagrams discovered by Bryant.

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Michon, JF., Champarnaud, JM. (1999). Automata and Binary Decision Diagrams. In: Champarnaud, JM., Ziadi, D., Maurel, D. (eds) Automata Implementation. WIA 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1660. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48057-9_15

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