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Untameable Timed Automata!

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Timed automata are a widely studied model for real-time systems. Since 8 years, several tools implement this model and are successfully used to verify real-life examples. In spite of this well-established framework, we prove that the forward analysis algorithm implemented in these tools is not correct! However, we also prove that it is correct for a restricted class of timed automata, which has been sufficient for modeling numerous real-life systems.

Partly supported by the French RNRT Project Calife

Basic Research in Computer Science (www.brics.dk), funded by the Danish National Research Foundation. 1 http://www-cad.eecs.berkeley.edu:80/∼tah/HyTech/ 2 http://www-verimag.imag.fr/TEMPORISE/kronos/ 3 http://www.uppaal.com/

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    Patricia Bouyer

  2. BRICS*** - Aalborg University, Fredrik Bajers Vej 7E, 9220, Aalborgø, Denmark

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Bouyer, P. (2003). Untameable Timed Automata!. In: Alt, H., Habib, M. (eds) STACS 2003. STACS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2607. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36494-3_54

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