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On the Complexity of the Hidden Weighted Bit Function for Various BDD Models

Beate Bollig, Martin Löbbing, Martin Sauerhoff, Ingo Wegener (2010)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications

Ordered binary decision diagrams (OBDDs) and several more general BDD models have turned out to be representations of Boolean functions which are useful in applications like verification, timing analysis, test pattern generation or combinatorial optimization. The hidden weighted bit function (HWB) is of particular interest, since it seems to be the simplest function with exponential OBDD size. The complexity of this function with respect to different circuit models, formulas, and various...

Polyabelian loops and Boolean completeness

François Lemieux, Cristopher Moore, Denis Thérien (2000)

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae

We consider the question of which loops are capable of expressing arbitrary Boolean functions through expressions of constants and variables. We call this property Boolean completeness. It is a generalization of functional completeness, and is intimately connected to the computational complexity of various questions about expressions, circuits, and equations defined over the loop. We say that a loop is polyabelian if it is an iterated affine quasidirect product of Abelian groups; polyabelianness...

Reconstructibility of Boolean control networks with time delays in states

Ping Sun, Lijun Zhang, Kuize Zhang (2018)

Kybernetika

This paper deals with the reconstructibility of Boolean control networks (BCNs) with time delays in states. First, a survey on the semi-tensor product, weighted pair graph, constructed forest and finite automata is given. Second, by using the weighted pair graph, constructed forest and finite automata, an algorithm is designed to judge whether a Boolean control network with time delays in states is reconstructable or not under a mild assumption. Third, an algorithm is proposed to determine the current...

Reduction in the number of LUT elements for control units with code sharing

Alexander Barkalov, Larysa Titarenko, Jacek Bieganowski (2010)

International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

Two methods are proposed targeted at reduction in the number of look-up table elements in logic circuits of compositional microprogram control units (CMCUs) with code sharing. The methods assume the application of field-programmable gate arrays for the implementation of the combinational part of the CMCU, whereas embedded-memory blocks are used for implementation of its control memory. Both methods are based on the existence of classes of pseudoequivalent operational linear chains in a microprogram...

Restricted nondeterministic read-once branching programs and an exponential lower bound for integer multiplication

Beate Bollig (2001)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications - Informatique Théorique et Applications

Branching programs are a well established computation model for Boolean functions, especially read-once branching programs have been studied intensively. In this paper the expressive power of nondeterministic read-once branching programs, more precisely the class of functions representable in polynomial size, is investigated. For that reason two restricted models of nondeterministic read-once branching programs are defined and a lower bound method is presented. Furthermore, the first exponential...

Restricted Nondeterministic Read-Once Branching Programs and an Exponential Lower Bound for Integer Multiplication

Beate Bollig (2010)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications

Branching programs are a well established computation model for Boolean functions, especially read-once branching programs have been studied intensively. In this paper the expressive power of nondeterministic read-once branching programs, more precisely the class of functions representable in polynomial size, is investigated. For that reason two restricted models of nondeterministic read-once branching programs are defined and a lower bound method is presented. Furthermore, the first exponential...

Some necessary and sufficient conditions for the output controllability of temporal Boolean control networks

Yang Liu, Jianquan Lu, Bo Wu (2014)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

This paper investigates the output controllability problem of temporal Boolean networks with inputs (control nodes) and outputs (controlled nodes). A temporal Boolean network is a logical dynamic system describing cellular networks with time delays. Using semi-tensor product of matrices, the temporal Boolean networks can be converted into discrete time linear dynamic systems. Some necessary and sufficient conditions on the output controllability via two kinds of inputs are obtained by providing...

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