par Geeraerts, Gilles 
;Raskin, Jean-François ;Sznajder, Nathalie
Référence Lecture notes in computer science, 6919 LNCS, page (209-224)
Publication Publié, 2011
;Raskin, Jean-François ;Sznajder, NathalieRéférence Lecture notes in computer science, 6919 LNCS, page (209-224)
Publication Publié, 2011
Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | Event clock automata (ECA ) are a model for timed languages that has been introduced by Alur, Fix and Henzinger as an alternative to timed automata, with better theoretical properties (for instance, ECA are determinizable while timed automata are not). In this paper, we revisit and extend the theory of ECA. We first prove that no finite time abstract language equivalence exists for ECA, thereby disproving a claim in the original work on ECA. This means in particular that regions do not form a time abstract bisimulation. Nevertheless, we show that regions can still be used to build a finite automaton recognizing the untimed language of an ECA . Then, we extend the classical notions of zones and DBMs to let them handle event clocks instead of plain clocks (as in timed automata) by introducing event zones and Event DBMs (EDBMs). We discuss algorithms to handle event zones represented as EDBMs, as well as (semi-) algorithms based on EDBMs to decide language emptiness of ECA. © 2011 Springer-Verlag. |
