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Timed automata (TAs) are an efficient formalism to model and verify systems with hard timing constraints, and concurrency. While TAs assume exact timing constants with infinite precision, parametric TAs (PTAs) leverage this limitation and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Johan Arcile , Étienne André

Information leakage can have dramatic consequences on systems security. Among harmful information leaks, the timing information leakage occurs whenever an attacker successfully deduces confidential internal information. In this work, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Étienne André , Didier Lime , Dylan Marinho , Jun Sun

The paper addresses the problem of computing maximal expected time to termination of probabilistic timed automata (PTA) models, under the condition that the system will, eventually, terminate. This problem can exhibit high computational…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Omar Al-Bataineh , Michael Fisher , David Rosenblum

Threshold automata are a formalism for modeling fault-tolerant distributed algorithms. The main feature of threshold automata is the notion of a threshold guard, which allows us to compare the number of received messages with the total…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-01 A. R. Balasubramanian

Timed automata are the formal model for real-time systems. Extensions with discrete probabilistic branching have been considered in the literature and successfully applied. Probabilistic timed automata (PTA) do require all branching…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Darion Haase , Joost-Pieter Katoen

Parametric analysis is a powerful tool for designing modern embedded systems, because it permits to explore the space of design parameters, and to check the robustness of the system with respect to variations of some uncontrollable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-02-07 Youcheng Sun , Romain Soulat , Giuseppe Lipari , Étienne André , Laurent Fribourg

Parametric timed automata (PTAs) extend the concept of timed automata, by allowing timing delays not only specified by concrete values but also by parameters, allowing the analysis of systems with uncertainty regarding timing behaviors. The…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Étienne André , Johan Arcile , Engel Lefaucheux

This paper considers parametric Markov decision processes (pMDPs) whose transitions are equipped with affine functions over a finite set of parameters. The synthesis problem is to find a parameter valuation such that the instantiated pMDP…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Murat Cubuktepe , Nils Jansen , Sebastian Junges , Joost-Pieter Katoen , Ufuk Topcu

Parametric timed automata are a powerful formalism for reasoning on concurrent real-time systems with unknown or uncertain timing constants. In order to test the efficiency of new algorithms, a fair set of benchmarks is required. We present…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Étienne André , Dylan Marinho , Jaco van de Pol

Parametric timed automata (PTA) are an extension of timed automata in which clocks can be compared against parameters. The reachability problem asks for the existence of an assignment of the parameters to the non-negative integers such that…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Stefan Göller , Mathieu Hilaire

Parametric timed automata are a powerful formalism for reasoning on concurrent real-time systems with unknown or uncertain timing constants. Reducing their state space is a significant way to reduce the inherently large analysis times. We…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Étienne André , Dylan Marinho , Laure Petrucci , Jaco van de Pol

The unrealizability of a specification is often due to the assumption that the behavior of the environment is unrestricted. In this paper, we present algorithms for synthesis in bounded environments, where the environment can only generate…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Rayna Dimitrova , Bernd Finkbeiner , Hazem Torfah

We address the safety verification and synthesis problems for real-time systems. We introduce real-time programs that are made of instructions that can perform assignments to discrete and real-valued variables. They are general enough to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Franck Cassez , Peter Gjøl Jensen , Kim Guldstrand Larsen

We study the problem of determining whether a given temporal specification can be implemented by a symmetric system, i.e., a system composed from identical components. Symmetry is an important goal in the design of distributed systems,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Ruediger Ehlers , Bernd Finkbeiner

Timed automata (TAs) are a widely used formalism to specify systems having temporal requirements. However, exactly specifying the system may be difficult, as the user may not know the exact clock constraints triggering state transitions. In…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Étienne André , Paolo Arcaini , Angelo Gargantini , Marco Radavelli

Synthesizer is a type of electronic musical instrument that is now widely used in modern music production and sound design. Each parameters configuration of a synthesizer produces a unique timbre and can be viewed as a unique instrument.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Zui Chen , Yansen Jing , Shengcheng Yuan , Yifei Xu , Jian Wu , Hang Zhao

Threshold automata are a formalism for modeling and analyzing fault-tolerant distributed algorithms, recently introduced by Konnov, Veith, and Widder, describing protocols executed by a fixed but arbitrary number of processes. We conduct…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-02 A. R. Balasubramanian , Javier Esparza , Marijana Lazic

We propose a method to synthesize a parameterized infinite-state systems that can be instantiated for different parameter values. The specification is given in a parameterized temporal logic that allows for data variables as well as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Benedikt Maderbacher , Roderick Bloem

In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm for the parameter synthesis of PLTL formulas with respect to parametric Markov chains. The PLTL formula is translated to an almost fully partitioned B\"uchi automaton which is then composed…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Yong Li , Wanwei Liu , Andrea Turrini , Ernst Moritz Hahn , Lijun Zhang

We consider Pareto analysis of reachable states of multi-priced timed automata (MPTA): timed automata equipped with multiple observers that keep track of costs (to be minimised) and rewards (to be maximised) along a computation. Each…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Martin Fränzle , Mahsa Shirmohammadi , Mani Swaminathan , James Worrell