@InProceedings{szykula:LIPIcs.STACS.2018.56, author = {Szykula, Marek}, title = {{Improving the Upper Bound on the Length of the Shortest Reset Word}}, booktitle = {35th Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2018)}, pages = {56:1--56:13}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-062-0}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2018}, volume = {96}, editor = {Niedermeier, Rolf and Vall\'{e}e, Brigitte}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2018.56}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-85160}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2018.56}, annote = {Keywords: avoiding word, Cerny conjecture, reset length, reset threshold, reset word, synchronizing automaton, synchronizing word} }