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Abstract. We consider verification of safety properties for parameterized systems of timed processes, so called timed networks. A timed network consists of a finite state process, called a controller, and an arbitrary set of identical timed processes. In a previous work, we showed that checking safety properties is decidable in the case where each timed process is equipped with a single real-valued clock. It was left open whether the result could be extended to multi-clock timed networks. We show that the problem becomes undecidable when each timed process has two clocks. On the other hand, we show that the problem is decidable when clocks range over a discrete time domain. This decidability result holds when processes have any finite number of clocks.

Abstract. This paper is concerned with the language inclusion problem for timed automata: given timed automata A and B, is every word accepted by B also accepted by A? Alur and Dill [5] showed that the language inclusion problem is decidable if A has no clocks and undecidable if A has two clocks (with no restriction on B). However, the status of the problem when A has one clock is not determined by [5]. In this paper we close this gap for timed automata over infinite words by showing that the one-clock language inclusion problem is undecidable. For timed automata over finite words, building on our earlier paper [19], we show that the one-clock language inclusion problem is decidable with nonprimitive recursive complexity. This reveals a surprising divergence between the theory of timed automata over finite words and over infinite words. Finally, we show that if ε-transitions or non-singular postconditions are allowed, then the one-clock language inclusion problem is undecidable over both finite and infinite words.

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