# Compositional Approach to Suspension and Other Improvements to LTL Translation

@inproceedings{Babiak2013CompositionalAT,
title={Compositional Approach to Suspension and Other Improvements to LTL Translation},
author={Tom{\'a}s Babiak and Th. Badie and Alexandre Duret-Lutz and Mojm{\'i}r Kret{\'i}nsk{\'y} and Jan Strej{\vc}ek},
booktitle={SPIN},
year={2013}
}
• Published in SPIN 8 July 2013
• Computer Science
Recently, there was defined a fragment of LTL (containing fairness properties among other interesting formulae) whose validity over a given infinite word depends only on an arbitrary suffix of the word. Building upon an existing translation from LTL to Buchi automata, we introduce a compositional approach where subformulae of this fragment are translated separately from the rest of an input formula and the produced automata are composed in a way that the subformulae are checked only in relevant…
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