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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.48
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-68831
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2016/6883/
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Herbreteau, Frédéric ; Srivathsan, B. ; Tran, Thanh-Tung ; Walukiewicz, Igor

Why Liveness for Timed Automata Is Hard, and What We Can Do About It

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Abstract

The liveness problem for timed automata asks if a given automaton has a run passing infinitely often through an accepting state. We show that unless P=NP, the liveness problem is more difficult than the reachability problem; more precisely, we exhibit a family of automata for which solving the reachability problem with the standard algorithm is in P but solving the liveness problem is NP-hard. This leads us to revisit the algorithmics for the liveness problem. We propose a notion of a witness for the fact that a timed automaton violates a liveness property. We give an algorithm for computing such a witness and compare it with the existing solutions.

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@InProceedings{herbreteau_et_al:LIPIcs:2016:6883,
  author =	{Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric Herbreteau and B. Srivathsan and Thanh-Tung Tran and Igor Walukiewicz},
  title =	{{Why Liveness for Timed Automata Is Hard, and What We Can Do About It}},
  booktitle =	{36th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2016)},
  pages =	{48:1--48:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-027-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{65},
  editor =	{Akash Lal and S. Akshay and Saket Saurabh and Sandeep Sen},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2016/6883},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-68831},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.48},
  annote =	{Keywords: Timed automata, model-checking, liveness invariant, state subsumption}
}

Keywords: Timed automata, model-checking, liveness invariant, state subsumption
Collection: 36th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2016)
Issue Date: 2016
Date of publication: 10.12.2016

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