# A Comparison of BDD-Based Parity Game Solvers

@article{Sanchez2018ACO,
title={A Comparison of BDD-Based Parity Game Solvers},
author={Lisette Sanchez and Wieger Wesselink and Tim A. C. Willemse},
journal={CoRR},
year={2018},
volume={abs/1809.03097},
pages={103-117}
}
• Published 7 September 2018
• Computer Science
• CoRR
Parity games are two player games with omega-winning conditions, played on finite graphs. Such games play an important role in verification, satisfiability and synthesis. It is therefore important to identify algorithms that can efficiently deal with large games that arise from such applications. In this paper, we describe our experiments with BDD-based implementations of four parity game solving algorithms, viz. Zielonka's recursive algorithm, the more recent Priority Promotion algorithm, the…

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