Well-structured transition systems provide the right foundation to compute a finite basis of the set of predecessors of the upward closure of a state. The dual problem, to compute a finite representation of the set of successors of the downward closure of a state, is harder: Until now, the theoretical framework for manipulating downward-closed sets was missing. We answer this problem, using insights from domain theory (dcpos and ideal completions), from topology (sobrifications), and shed new light on the notion of adequate domains of limits.
@InProceedings{finkel_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2009.1844, author = {Finkel, Alain and Goubault-Larrecq, Jean}, title = {{Forward Analysis for WSTS, Part I: Completions}}, booktitle = {26th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science}, pages = {433--444}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-939897-09-5}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2009}, volume = {3}, editor = {Albers, Susanne and Marion, Jean-Yves}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2009.1844}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-18444}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2009.1844}, annote = {Keywords: WSTS, Forward analysis, Completion, Karp-Miller procedure, Domain theory, Sober spaces, Noetherian spaces} }
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