@InProceedings{abdulla_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2009.2302, author = {Abdulla, Parosh A. and Chen, Yu-Fang and Holik, Lukas and Vojnar, Tomas}, title = {{Mediating for Reduction (on Minimizing Alternating B\"{u}chi Automata)}}, booktitle = {IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science}, pages = {1--12}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-939897-13-2}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2009}, volume = {4}, editor = {Kannan, Ravi and Narayan Kumar, K.}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2009.2302}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-23027}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2009.2302}, annote = {Keywords: Alternating Automata, Buchi Automata, Automata Minimization, Buchi Automata Complementation, Simulation Preorder, forward and backward simulation, mediated equivalence} }