• DocumentCode
    2254188
  • Title

    Lower-Bound Constrained Runs in Weighted Timed Automata

  • Author

    Bouyer, Patricia ; Larsen, Kim G. ; Markey, Nicolas

  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    17-20 Sept. 2012
  • Firstpage
    128
  • Lastpage
    137
  • Abstract
    We investigate a number of problems related to infinite runs of weighted timed automata, subject to lower-bound constraints on the accumulated weight. Closing an open problem from an earlier paper, we show that the existence of an infinite lower-bound-constrained run is -- for us somewhat unexpectedly -- undecidable for weighted timed automata with four or more clocks. This undecidability result assumes a fixed and known initial credit. We show that the related problem of existence of an initial credit for which there exists a feasible run is decidable in PSPACE. We also investigate the variant of these problems where only bounded-duration runs are considered, showing that this restriction makes our original problem decidable in NEXPTIME. Finally, we prove that the universal versions of all those problems(i.e, checking that all the considered runs satisfy the lower-bound constraint) are decidable in PSPACE.
  • Keywords
    automata theory; computational complexity; decidability; NEXPTIME; PSPACE; accumulated weight; bounded-duration runs; fixed initial credit; infinite lower-bound-constrained run; known initial credit; lower-bound constraints; undecidability result; weighted timed automata; Clocks; Cost accounting; Delay; Energy states; Schedules; Turing machines; Weighted timed automata; energy constraints;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST), 2012 Ninth International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    London
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-2346-8
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-0-7695-4781-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/QEST.2012.28
  • Filename
    6354641