Priced timed automata provide a natural model for quantitative analysis of
real-time systems and have been successfully applied in various scheduling and
planning problems. The optimal reachability problem for linearly-priced timed
automata is known to be PSPACE-complete. In this paper we investigate priced
timed automata with more general prices and show that in the most general
setting the optimal reachability problem is undecidable. We adapt and implement
the construction of Audemard, Cimatti, Kornilowicz, and Sebastiani for
non-linear priced timed automata using state-of-the-art theorem prover Z3 and
present some preliminary results.Comment: In Proceedings V2CPS-16, arXiv:1612.0402
In (DLT 2016) we studied timed context sensitive languages characterized by multiple stack push down automata (MPA), with an explicit bound on number of stages where in each stage at most one stack is used (k-round MPA). In this paper, we continue our work on timed MPA and study a subclass in which a symbol corresponding to a stack being pushed in it must be popped within fixed number of contexts of that stack -scope-bounded push-down automata with multiple stacks (k-scope MPA). We use Visibly Push-down Alphabet and Event Clocks to show that timed k-scope MPA have decidable reachability problem; are closed under Boolean operations; and have an equivalent logical characterization.
Bounded-rate multi-mode systems are hybrid systems that can switch among a finite set of modes. Its dynamics is specified by a finite number of real-valued variables with modedependent rates that can vary within given bounded sets. Given an arbitrary piecewise linear trajectory, we study the problem of following the trajectory with arbitrary precision, using motion primitives given as bounded-rate multi-mode systems. We give an algorithm to solve the problem and show that the problem is co-NP complete. We further prove that the problem can be solved in polynomial time for multimode systems with fixed dimension. We study the problem with dwell-time requirement and show the decidability of the problem under certain positivity restriction on the rate vectors. Finally, we show that introducing structure to the multi-mode systems leads to undecidability, even when using only a single clock variable.
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