Nondeterminism in the Presence of a Diverse or Unknown Future

@inproceedings{Boker2013NondeterminismIT,
  title={Nondeterminism in the Presence of a Diverse or Unknown Future},
  author={Udi Boker and Denis Kuperberg and Orna Kupferman and Michal Skrzypczak},
  booktitle={ICALP},
  year={2013}
}
Choices made by nondeterministic word automata depend on both the past (the prefix of the word read so far) and the future (the suffix yet to be read). In several applications, most notably synthesis, the future is diverse or unknown, leading to algorithms that are based on deterministic automata. Hoping to retain some of the advantages of nondeterministic automata, researchers have studied restricted classes of nondeterministic automata. Three such classes are nondeterministic automata that… 
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