Sampled universality of timed automata

Parosh Aziz Abdulla, Pavel Krcal, Wang Yi

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Abstract

Timed automata can be studied in not only a dense-time setting but also a discrete-time setting. The most common example of discrete-time semantics is the so called sampled semantics (i.e., discrete semantics with a fixed time granularity ε). In the real-time setting, the universality problem is known to be undecidable for timed automata. In this work, we study the universality question for the languages accepted by timed automata with sampled semantics. On the negative side, we show that deciding whether for all sampling periods e a timed automaton accepts all timed words in ε-sampled semantics is as hard as in the real-time case, i.e., undecidable. On the positive side, we show that checking whether there is a sampling period such that a timed automaton accepts all untimed words in ε-sampled semantics is decidable. Our proof uses clock difference relations, developed to characterize the reachability relation for timed automata in connection with sampled semantics.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFoundations of Software Science and Computational Structures - 10th International Conference, FOSSACS 2007. Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2007
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages2-16
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)3540713883, 9783540713883
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes
Event10th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures, FOSSACS 2007 - Braga, Portugal
Duration: 24 Mar 20071 Apr 2007

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4423 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures, FOSSACS 2007
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityBraga
Period24/03/071/04/07

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