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We study properties of priority synthesis [2], an automatic method to ensure desired safety properties in component-based systems using priorities. Priorities are a powerful concept to orchestrate components [3], e.g., the BIP framework [1] for designing and modeling embedded and autonomous systems is based on this concept.
We formulate priority synthesis for BIP systems using the automata-theoretic framework proposed by Ramadge and Wonham [5]. In this framework, priority synthesis results in searching for a supervisor from the restricted class of supervisors, in which each is solidly expressible using priorities. While priority-based supervisors are easier to use, e.g., they support the construction of distributed protocols, they are harder to compute. In this paper, we focus on the hardness of synthesizing priorities and show that finding a supervisor based on priorities that ensures deadlock freedom of the supervised system is NP-complete.
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Cheng, CH., Jobstmann, B., Buckl, C., Knoll, A. (2011). On the Hardness of Priority Synthesis. In: Bouchou-Markhoff, B., Caron, P., Champarnaud, JM., Maurel, D. (eds) Implementation and Application of Automata. CIAA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6807. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22256-6_11
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