Decision Diagrams – Concepts and Applications

The fifth workshop Decision Diagrams – Concepts and Applications in the series Computer Aided Design and Test at the IBFI Schloß Dagstuhl was organized by Bernd Becker (Univ. Freiburg), Christoph Meinel (Univ. Trier), Shin-Ichi Minato (NTT Optical Network, Japan), and Fabio Somenzi (Univ. of Colorado). It was attended by 31 scientists. Decision Diagrams (DDs) have found widespread use in computer-aided design of digital circuits. They form the heart of many tools for formal verification and are also commonly used in logic synthesis, circuit testing and in the verification of communication protocols. With increasing number of applications, also in non–CAD areas, classical methods to handle DDs are being improved and new questions and problems evolve and have to be solved. The organizers took the opportunity to bring together researchers from different areas in computer science, electrical engineering and industry. The common aim of all researchers is to deepen the understanding of DDs as a data structure, to improve existing techniques and to explore new fields of application. At the workshop, 23 lectures were presented covering different topics of DD research among them being: