Finds the minimum Deterministic Finite-State Automaton (DFA) that is consistent with the given sequences to accept and to reject.

The program reads .xes files and uses these logs as input sequences.

This project implements: Marijn J. H. Heule and Sicco Verwer. 2010. Exact DFA identification using SAT solvers.

• Install ant
• Download OpenXes
• Download Guava
• Download Sat4j solver

Put the downloaded libraries (usually as jars) in a directory named "lib" in the top level directory of the project (the one containing "build.xml").

The input of the program is composed of two sets of sequences: one for learning the DFA and one for testing. All sequences must be in XES format. By default, the program will use the directory "traces/train" for learning and "traces/test" for testing. However one may specify arbitrary paths when running the program, using options:

ant -Dtrain=any_train_dir -Dtest=any_test_dir

Each sequence in the log is a trace in XES format composed of events. Just the name of the events are used to identify transitions. Add "OK" in the filename of XES files containing sequences to be accepted by the DFA. Sequences to reject need no modification.

Run with ant. To genereate the documentation, run ant doc.

Ant always passes the train and test directories to the program (either the default values or the ones specified with options). If the program is executed directly, we need to explicitly pass the two directories. For example:

java -jar TraceDFA.jar traces/train/ traces/test/

when the program is provided as a single Jar.

The program will create a directory "output" with tree Latex files:

• dfa.tex is the main output of the program. This is the extracted Finite State Automaton which is consistent with the given traces.
• apta.tex is the APTA the algorithm uses internally to represent the input traces (to learn). For a big number of traces you won't be able to compile this, due to space limitation of the Tex page.
• constraints.tex is the graph of constraints the algorithm internally uses to represent the constraints in the coloring problem. This also could exceed Tex limitations.

The DFA will be also saved in a .dot text file in the same directory. Tools such as GraphViz can read dot files.