Talk:Binary decision diagram
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the sentence "For a long time, this representation was called Alternative Graphs, until it was once renamed." needs fixing... either until it was renamed or until it was once again renamed ???
Two years before Lee the same idea was introduced in former Soviet Union, in Tallinn University of Technology (Ubar 1976). For a long time, this representation was called Alternative Graphs, until it was once renamed.
I removed the above from the article, because (Ubar 1976) is not two years before (Lee 1959). Or does it mean before Akers??? I also don't understand the renaming thing. --Dirk 12:34, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
It means before Akers - Ubar from my understanding was the first to impose the sorted restriction on the tree (according to section 3.1 of Jaan Raik's masters thesis also from the same source it doesnt seem like the names are conflicting since there are diffrences in the graphs and the ROBDD can apparently be considered a specialization of the Alternative Graph (havent seen Ubars paper but Raik has co-authered papers with Ubar since then so it would seem he got his information directly from the source) Doctus (20 minutes before I learnt to insert four instead of 3 tilders)
After some more searching it turns out that Alternative Graphs eventually became known as Structurally synthesized binary decision diagrams and the reason nobody new about Ubars work was because it was published in Rusion. Doctus 03:04, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
