@InProceedings{szykula_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2022.85, author = {Szyku{\l}a, Marek and Zyzik, Adam}, title = {{An Improved Algorithm for Finding the Shortest Synchronizing Words}}, booktitle = {30th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2022)}, pages = {85:1--85:15}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-247-1}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2022}, volume = {244}, editor = {Chechik, Shiri and Navarro, Gonzalo and Rotenberg, Eva and Herman, Grzegorz}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2022.85}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-170237}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2022.85}, annote = {Keywords: \v{C}ern\{\'{y}\} conjecture, reset threshold, reset word, subset checking, synchronizing automaton, synchronizing word} }