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Timed automata are a widely used formalism for specifying the discrete-state/continuous-time behavior of time-critical reactive systems. For the fundamental verification problem of comparing two timed automata, it has been shown that timed…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Alexander Lieb , Hendrik Göttmann , Lars Luthmann , Malte Lochau , Andy Schürr

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

The zone abstraction, widely adopted for its notable practical efficiency, is the de facto standard in the verification of Timed Automata (TA). Nonetheless, region-based abstractions have been shown to outperform zones in specific…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Andrea Manini , Matteo Rossi , Pierluigi San Pietro

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

Interrupt Timed Automata (ITA) is an expressive timed model, introduced to take into account interruptions, according to levels. Due to this feature, this formalism is incomparable with Timed Automata. However several decidability results…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Béatrice Bérard , Serge Haddad , Aleksandra Jovanović , Didier Lime

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

Timed automata (TAs) are an extension of finite automata that can measure and react to the passage of time, providing the ability to handle real-time constraints using clocks. In 2009, Franck Cassez showed that the timed opacity problem,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Étienne André , Sarah Dépernet , Engel Lefaucheux

Weighted timed automata have been defined in the early 2000's for modelling resource-consumption or -allocation problems in real-time systems. Optimal reachability is decidable in weighted timed automata, and a symbolic forward algorithm…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-02-02 Patricia Bouyer , Maximilien Colange , Nicolas Markey

We study timed systems in which some timing features are unknown parameters. Parametric timed automata (PTAs) are a classical formalism for such systems but for which most interesting problems are undecidable. Notably, the parametric…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Étienne André , Didier Lime , Olivier H. Roux

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

Timed automata (TA) have been widely adopted as a suitable formalism to model time-critical systems. Furthermore, contemporary model-checking tools allow the designer to check whether a TA complies with a system specification. However, the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Jaroslav Bendík , Ahmet Sencan , Ebru Aydin Gol , Ivana Černá

We propose deterministic timed automata (DTA) as a model-independent language for specifying performance and dependability measures over continuous-time stochastic processes. Technically, these measures are defined as limit frequencies of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Tomáš Brázdil , Jan Krčál , Jan Křetínský , Antonín Kučera , Vojtěch Řehák

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

In this paper, we consider a model of generalized timed automata (GTA) with two kinds of clocks, history and future, that can express many timed features succinctly, including timed automata, event-clock automata with and without diagonal…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-19 S Akshay , Paul Gastin , R Govind , Aniruddha R Joshi , B Srivathsan

A popular method for solving reachability in timed automata proceeds by enumerating reachable sets of valuations represented as zones. A na\"ive enumeration of zones does not terminate. Various termination mechanisms have been studied over…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Paul Gastin , Sayan Mukherjee , B Srivathsan

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

An infinite run of a timed automaton is Zeno if it spans only a finite amount of time. Such runs are considered unfeasible and hence it is important to detect them, or dually, find runs that are non-Zeno. Over the years important…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Frédéric Herbreteau , B Srivathsan

The parameter synthesis problem for parametric timed automata is undecidable in general even for very simple reachability properties. In this paper we introduce restrictions on parameter valuations under which the parameter synthesis…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-07 Peter Bezděk , Nikola Beneš , Jiří Barnat , Ivana Černá

Timed Automata (TA) is de facto a standard modelling formalism to represent systems when the interest is the analysis of their behaviour as time progresses. This modelling formalism is mostly used for checking whether the behaviours of a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Claudio Menghi , Marcello Bersani , Matteo Rossi , Pierluigi San Pietro

We investigate a zone based approach for the reachability problem in timed automata. The challenge is to alleviate the size explosion of the search space when considering networks of timed automata working in parallel. In the timed setting…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-05 R. Govind , Frédéric Herbreteau , B. Srivathsan , Igor Walukiewicz