Minimization of symbolic relations
Binshan Lin, Fabio Somenzi · 2002
The problem of minimizing symbolic relations is addressed. The relevance of this problem in the field of optimal encoding is shown by examples. A binate covering formulation of the optimization problems involved is given, for which several algorithms are available. A novel method is proposed which is based on binary decision diagrams (BDDs) and the authors show how the covering problem can be solved in linear time in that case.>