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The Theory of Hybrid Automata

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Verification of Digital and Hybrid Systems

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((NATO ASI F,volume 170))

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A hybrid automaton is a formal model for a mixed discrete-continuous System. W e classify hybrid automata acoording to what questions about their behavior can be answered algorithmically. The Classification reveals structure on mixed discrete-continuous State Spaces that was previously studied on purely discrete state Spaces only. In particular, various classes of hybrid automata induce finitary trace equivalence (or similarity, or bisimilarity) relations on an uncountable State space, thus permitting the application of various model-checking techniques that were originally developed for finitestate Systems.

* This research was supported in part by the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator award N00014-95-1-0520, by the National Science Foundation CAREER award CCR-9501708, by the National Science Foundation grant CCR- 9504469, by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research contract F49620-93-1- 0056, by the Army Research Office MURI grant DAAH-04-96-1-0341, by the Advanced Research Projects Agency grant NAG2-892, and by the Semiconductor Research Corporation contract 96-DC-324.036.

** A preliminary version of this paper appeared in the Proceedings of the l l th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 96), p p . 278- 292.

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Henzinger, T.A. (2000). The Theory of Hybrid Automata. In: Inan, M.K., Kurshan, R.P. (eds) Verification of Digital and Hybrid Systems. NATO ASI Series, vol 170. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59615-5_13

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