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The paper shows how to refine large-scale or even infinite transition systems so as to ensure certain desired properties. First, a given system is reduced into a smallish, finite bisimulation quotient. Second, the reduced system is refined in order to ensure a given property, using any known finite-state method. Third, the refined reduced system is expanded back into an adequate refinement of the system given initially. The proposed method is based on a Galois connection between systems and their quotients. It is applicable to various models and bisimulations and is illustrated with a few qualitative and quantitative properties.
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Glück, R., Möller, B., Sintzoff, M. (2011). Model Refinement Using Bisimulation Quotients. In: Johnson, M., Pavlovic, D. (eds) Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology. AMAST 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6486. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17796-5_5
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