Nicolas Markey

Abstract

In this paper we survey several approaches to the robustness of timed automata, that is, the ability of a system to resist to slight perturbations or errors. We will concentrate on robustness against timing errors which can be due to measuring errors, imprecise clocks, and unexpected runtime behaviors such as execution times that are longer or shorter than expected.

We consider the perturbation model of guard enlargement and formulate several robust verification problems that have been studied recently, including robustness analysis, robust implementation, and robust control.

@inproceedings{rp2013-BMS,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Markey, Nicolas and Sankur,
                         Ocan},
  title =               {Robustness in timed automata},
  editor =              {Abdulla, Parosh Aziz and Potapov, Igor},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 7th {W}orkshop on
                         {R}eachability {P}roblems in {C}omputational
                         {M}odels ({RP}'13)},
  acronym =             {{RP}'13},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {8169},
  pages =               {1-18},
  year =                {2013},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-642-41036-9_1},
  abstract =            {In this paper we survey several approaches to the
                         robustness of timed automata, that~is, the ability
                         of a system to resist to slight perturbations or
                         errors. We will concentrate on robustness against
                         timing errors which can be due to measuring errors,
                         imprecise clocks, and unexpected runtime behaviors
                         such as execution times that are longer or shorter
                         than expected.\par We consider the perturbation
                         model of guard enlargement and formulate several
                         robust verification problems that have been studied
                         recently, including robustness analysis, robust
                         implementation, and robust control.},
}