Title of dissertation: TOWARDS A UNIFIED THEORY OF TIMED AUTOMATA Peter Christopher Fontana, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Dissertation directed by: Professor Rance Cleaveland Department of Computer Science Timed automata are finite-state machines augmented with special clock variables that reflect the advancement of time. Able to both capture real-time behavior and be verified algorithmically (mo...

Application areas such as multimedia equipment, communication protocols and networks often feature systems which exhibit both probabilistic and timed behaviour. In this paper, we consider analysis of such probabilistic timed systems using the technique of model checking, in which it is veriied automatically whether a system satisses a certain desired property. In order to describe formally prob...

An important veriication problem for concurrent systems in general is that of establishing whether one system is a correct implementation, or reenement, of another system. For untimed systems, trace inclusion (or variants such as failure inclusion) is often used as a criterion of reenement. The natural extension of this criterion to timed systems is timed trace{inclusion. Unfortunately, this pr...

This paper attempts to improve our understanding of timed languages and their relation to timed automata. We start by giving a constructive proof of the folk theorem stating that timed languages specified by the past fragment of MITL, can be accepted by deterministic timed automata. On the other hand we provide a proof that certain languages expressed in the future fragment of MITL are not dete...

This paper attempts to improve our understanding of timed languages and their relation to timed automata. We start by giving a constructive proof of the folk theorem stating that timed languages specified by the past fragment of MITL, can be accepted by deterministic timed automata. On the other hand we provide a proof that certain languages expressed in the future fragment of MITL are not dete...

We aim to generalize Büchi’s fundamental theorem on the coincidence of recognizable and MSO-definable languages to a weighted timed setting. For this, we investigate weighted timed automata and show how we can extend Wilke’s relative distance logic with weights taken from an arbitrary semiring. We show that every formula in our logic can effectively be transformed into a weighted timed automato...

Timed automata, priced timed automata and energy automata have emerged as useful formalisms for modeling a real-time and energy-aware systems as found in several embedded and cyber-physical systems. Whereas the real-time model checker UPPAAL allows for efficient verification of hard timing constraints of timed automata, model checking of priced timed automata and energy automata are in general ...

Perfect languages—a term coined by Esparza, Ganty, and Majumdar—are the classes of languages that are closed under Boolean operations and enjoy decidable emptiness problem. Perfect languages form the basis for decidable automata-theoretic model-checking for the respective class of models. Regular languages and visibly pushdown languages are paradigmatic examples of perfect languages. Alur and D...

TorX is a specification-based, on-the-fly testing tool that tests for ioco conformance of implementations w.r.t. a formal specification. This paper describes an extension of TorX to not only allow testing for functional correctness, but also for correctness w.r.t. timing properties expressed in the specification. An implementation then passes a timed test if it passes according to ioco, and if ...