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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

Parametric timed automata (PTA) are a powerful formalism to model and reason about concurrent systems with some unknown timing delays. In this paper, we address the (untimed) language- and trace-preservation problems: given a reference…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Étienne André , Didier Lime , Nicolas Markey

We consider pushdown timed automata (PTAs) that are timed automata (with dense clocks) augmented with a pushdown stack. A configuration of a PTA includes a control state, dense clock values and a stack word. By using the pattern technique,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Zhe Dang

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 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

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

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

Individual machines in flexible production lines explicitly expose capabilities at their interfaces by means of parametric skills. Given such a set of configurable machines, a line integrator is faced with the problem of finding and tuning…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Chih-Hong Cheng , Lacramioara Astefanoaei , Harald Ruess , Souha Ben Rayana , Saddek Bensalem

Timed pushdown automata (TPDA) are an expressive formalism combining recursion with a rich logic of timing constraints. We prove that reachability relations of TPDA are expressible in linear arithmetic, a rich logic generalising Presburger…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Lorenzo Clemente , Sławomir Lasota

Markov automata (MAs) extend labelled transition systems with random delays and probabilistic branching. Action-labelled transitions are instantaneous and yield a distribution over states, whereas timed transitions impose a random delay…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Dennis Guck , Hassan Hatefi , Holger Hermanns , Joost-Pieter Katoen , Mark Timmer

We investigate the problem of parameter synthesis for time Petri nets with a cost variable that evolves both continuously with time, and discretely when firing transitions. More precisely, parameters are rational symbolic constants used for…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Didier Lime , Olivier H. Roux , Charlotte Seidner

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

Parametric timed automata extend the standard timed automata with the possibility to use parameters in the clock guards. In general, if the parameters are real-valued, the problem of language emptiness of such automata is undecidable even…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Nikola Beneš , Peter Bezděk , Kim G. Larsen , Jiří Srba

Probabilistic timed automata (PTAs) are timed automata (TAs) extended with discrete probability distributions.They serve as a mathematical model for a wide range of applications that involve both stochastic and timed behaviours. In this…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Hongfei Fu , Yi Li , Jianlin Li , Lijun Zhang

We consider the synthesis of distributed implementations for specifications in parameterized temporal logics such as PROMPT-LTL, which extends LTL by temporal operators equipped with parameters that bound their scope. For single process…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Swen Jacobs , Leander Tentrup , Martin Zimmermann

Timing information leakage occurs whenever an attacker successfully deduces confidential internal information by observing some timed information such as events with timestamps. Timed automata are an extension of finite-state automata with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Étienne André , Engel Lefaucheux , Didier Lime , Dylan Marinho , Jun Sun

Real-world time series often exhibit a non-stationary nature, degrading the performance of pre-trained forecasting models. Test-Time Adaptation (TTA) addresses this by adjusting models during inference, but existing methods typically update…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Heitor R. Medeiros , Hossein Sharifi-Noghabi , Gabriel L. Oliveira , Saghar Irandoust

Multi-priced timed automata (MPTA) are timed automata with observer variables whose derivatives can change from one location to another. Observers are write-only variables, that is, they do not affect the control flow of the automaton; thus…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Andrew Scoones , Mahsa Shirmohammadi , James Worrell

We consider parametric version of fixed-delay continuous-time Markov chains (or equivalently deterministic and stochastic Petri nets, DSPN) where fixed-delay transitions are specified by parameters, rather than concrete values. Our goal is…

Performance · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Tomáš Brázdil , Ľuboš Korenčiak , Jan Krčál , Petr Novotný , Vojtěch Řehák

Time Optimal Path Parametrization is the problem of minimizing the time interval during which an actuation constrained agent can traverse a given path. Recently, an efficient linear-time algorithm for solving this problem was proposed.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Igor Spasojevic , Varun Murali , Sertac Karaman