Nicolas Markey

Abstract

Whereas formal verification of timed systems has become a very active field of research, the idealised mathematical semantics of timed automata cannot be faithfully implemented. Several works have thus focused on a modified semantics of timed automata which ensures implementability, and robust model-checking algorithms for safety, and later LTL properties have been designed. Recently, a new approach has been proposed, which reduces (standard) model-checking of timed automata to other verification problems on channel machines. Thanks to a new encoding of the modified semantics as a network of timed systems, we propose an original combination of both approaches, and prove that robust model-checking for coFlat-MTL, a large fragment of MTL, is EXPSPACE-Complete.

@inproceedings{fossacs2008-BMR,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Markey, Nicolas and Reynier,
                         Pierre-Alain},
  title =               {Robust Analysis of Timed Automata via Channel
                         Machines},
  editor =              {Amadio, Roberto},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 11th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {F}oundations of {S}oftware
                         {S}cience and {C}omputation {S}tructure
                         ({FoSSaCS}'08)},
  acronym =             {{FoSSaCS}'08},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {4962},
  pages =               {157-171},
  year =                {2008},
  month =               mar,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-540-78499-9_12},
  abstract =            {Whereas formal verification of timed systems has
                         become a very active field of research, the
                         idealised mathematical semantics of timed automata
                         cannot be faithfully implemented. Several works have
                         thus focused on a modified semantics of timed
                         automata which ensures implementability, and robust
                         model-checking algorithms for safety, and later LTL
                         properties have been designed. Recently, a~new
                         approach has been proposed, which reduces (standard)
                         model-checking of timed automata to other
                         verification problems on channel machines. Thanks to
                         a new encoding of the modified semantics as a
                         network of timed systems, we propose an original
                         combination of both approaches, and prove that
                         robust model-checking for coFlat-MTL, a large
                         fragment of~MTL, is EXPSPACE-Complete.},
}